Thou shalt do no murder

Question: .....but, i am not sure what "god" i am longing for............is it the "god" who told Samuel to tell King Saul to go and slaughter Amalek, including the women and children, because "he" was angry at Amalek for something they had done? in other words, the hebrew soldiers were supposed to stab to death a 6 month old child being held by its Amalek mother............
.....the 10 commands say thou shalt do no murder.................yet, the above is surely murder, conceived in the "mind" of an angry and wrathful "god"................. so, this "god" says "do what i say" and not what i do...............in other words, "god" can do as he pleases, including anger, wrath, violence and murder and genocide and vengeance, but I cannot............yet, i was "created in his image"?????perhaps my problem is that i do not know which "god" i want intimacy and harmony with............i certainly do not long for the god mentioned above............

Answer: Firstly, except for the arabic text of the Quran, all holy scriptures have been corrupted with human writings purported to being from God, referred out of context, and misinterpreted. The commandment that thou shalt not murder is for all times…….. life is sacred, a gift of God, and no human may take the life of another human being. In fact, even when killing animals for food, we are ordered to pronounce the name of God over it, reminding ourselves of the sacredness of life, and that this action of slaughtering, of being blessed with sustenance, is also a gift of God, and part of the great Circle of Life.Yet, we humans are indeed divided and hostile, and when one group gets bent upon defaming, conspiring against, attacking and destroying another, it is the right of every group to defend themselves. The God I know only prescribes killing in self-defence…….. He does not prescribe attacking peace-loving humans, no matter which religion they ascribe to or which deity they worship.