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How many times does the Lord smite sinners in the Bible?

*The Bible does not provide a precise, definitive total for the number of times God "smote" or killed people for sin. However, theologians and researchers have catalogued dozens of major recorded events in which divine judgment resulted in deaths, either widespread or individual.

Major Recorded Instances of Divine Judgment

Although individual verses use the specific word "smite" or describe God carrying out direct judgment, these events include both large-scale catastrophes and punishments of specific individuals:

The Great Flood: God destroyed all of humanity except Noah and his family because of widespread wickedness (Genesis 6-9).

Sodom and Gomorrah: Fire and brimstone fell and destroyed the cities because of their depravity (Genesis 19:24-25).

The Egyptian Firstborn: God struck down the firstborn of Egypt during the final plague before the Exodus (Exodus 12:29-30).

Korah’s Rebellion: The earth swallowed Korah and his followers, and fire consumed 250 men. A subsequent plague killed 14,700 people who had complained (Numbers 16).

Nadab and Abihu: Aaron's sons were consumed by fire for offering unauthorized fire before the Lord (Leviticus 10:1).

Ananias and Sapphira: In the New Testament, both fell dead after lying to the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:1-11).

Skeptics and scholars who have attempted to calculate the figures estimate that the cumulative death tolls in major narratives reach into the thousands or millions, primarily because of the Flood. However, Scripture presents these events as distinct, monumental instances of judgment rather than as an itemized, cumulative count.*

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Do these major smites suggest that the Lord or the Holy Spirit actually forgave the sinners, particularly in cases involving depravity, turpitude, corruption, and repeated harmful offenses- conduct regarded as blasphemous and unforgivable?

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Once sacred trust is broken, the victim is subjected to desecration and harm. And the grave sin is recorded on the sinner’s soul: an unholy action, thought, or failure to uphold God's law and moral principles that harms the victim and renders the perpetrator’s soul unholy.

This is especially true in cases of depravity, in which the sinner's heart becomes impure and, as asserted here, unable to receive the Holy Spirit and love. Desecrating the victim and the temple of the Holy Spirit is unforgivable and unclean.

Contrary to what some have been led to believe, not all sins are forgivable.

All sins remain recorded on the sinners’ souls until they are fully confessed, repented of, and atoned for.

Any sin that renders the sinner's soul unholy and unforgivable through the desecration of a victim and the temple of the Holy Spirit will not only make the soul unholy, but will also render the heart unclean and, as asserted here, unable to receive the Holy Spirit and love.

In other words, how could sinners who are unholy and desecrating, and who have reduced themselves to the status of cockroaches and parasites, endear themselves to the Lord, their victims, their families, or humanity?

Why would those cockroaches and parasites expect forgiveness while in such a state, without first cleaning themselves up, making amends, and reforming themselves?

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Suppose you are hosting a reception for the world's dignitaries and leaders, and an incident occurs in which guests are harmed. Would the world blame the guests and victims, or would it hold you, the host, responsible?

Who would be left with egg on their face—the guests or the host?

If uninvited guests enter your home without permission, steal from you, desecrate your home without your consent, and violate your wife and children, who would be at fault: the perpetrators or you?

In these scenarios, who would need forgiveness and be forgiven by the Lord and the Holy Spirit?

And would those perpetrating unforgivable sin be forgiven by the Lord?

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*Referenced from Google AI search: How many times in the Bible did the Lord smite sinners?*

Do you know the shame of repeated unclean, unholy, desecrators of the victim and the temple of the Holy Spirit is beyond the depths of hell?

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