Beheading in Christianity: Between Biblical Evidence and Historical Reality
1- The scriptural evidence : Is there in the Holy Bible..... what is called (slaughter)... or (cutting throats)?? Here you go: In the Book of Samuel, Chapter 17, it says: ((The Story of David and Goliath)) and from it: 49 Then David put his hand into the bag, and took a stone from it , and slinged it, and struck the Philistine on the forehead; and the stone stuck in his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. 50 So David gained the upper hand over the Philistine with the sling and the stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. And there was no sword in David's hand... ((that is, David killed the man with a sling and not a sword)) 51 Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it . And when the Philistines saw that their mighty man was dead, they fled. And as we have seen, according to the Old Testament, David did not stop at kil...