Posted on 11/25/2017 11:37:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It is all true. God can command genocide if He so desires.
My question has always been if the Israelis had done this completely would we have the threats we have today from the Middle East?
A) Slaughtering entire populations was quite common in this historical area. Equating that to modern day ISIS is beyond stupid because we’re not living in the Bronze age. B) Canaanites worshiped Baal and Molok, gods that required regular sacrifices of children into burning metal idols. Cry me a river about having their civilizations destroyed.
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Very stealthful, disingenuous article!
The thoughts expressed in the Bible are literally true, regardless of whether you are comfortable with how they are expressed.
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Their cultures can hardly be called civilization!
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Tha canaans had over four centuries to change their ways. God will only stand for child sacrifice to Molech for so long.
>>>Christ didn’t downplay the texts depicting judgment and for modern Christians doing so actually skews the image of Christ.<<<
Interesting, and very astute.
Also, I thought the Fighter Pilot simile was an excellent use of a rhetorical tool.
Good Post!
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Our terrorist threats are mostly from the near East (Syria, Palestinians, Saudi Arabs, African Arabs) and the Far East (N. Korea, Indonesia).
The persian nations make much noise, but only Pakistan is a terror problem due to their training bases.
Yes, there is the difference between YHWH ordering it or man deciding on it. Saul didn’t slay all the Amalikites, as instructed, and the result was one of there descendants, Haman, instituting the First Holocaust.
Same with vengeance. Simeon and Levi avenged their sister Dina’s rape and that did not go well for Israel.
It is also good to remember that this is YHWH’s world, everything that happens here, while not necessarily caused by Him, is still permitted by Him for His reasons, which are not our reasons.
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>> “The question is why God ordered the destruction of the ancient people of Canaan.” <<
Honestly???
They were pure evil, and their surviving descendents remain so today.
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Some people think the Canaanites were Anakim - the offspring of demonic mixing with humans (as possibly in the days of Noah, and the cause of the Flood).
The Israelites complained that the people were there “giants”, and that they were like grasshoppers compared to them.
And Josephus mentions that giant’s bones used to be found around Hebron.
So, it is possible that the command to kill them all was intended to wipe out the polluted gene line (as with the Flood).
The Israelites didn’t complete this; hence, Goliath,etc.
Deuteronomy 9:4-5 - ““Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them out before you, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you. It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
God was pronouncing judgment on the Canaanites for their wickedness. He has every right to do that, being the Creator of the Universe and of mankind.
Both Genesis 3 AND Genesis 6 are pivotal chapters in the Bible. There were nations of Nephilim living in the land, literal descendents of fallen angels. It's no wonder the Israelites were warned about intermarrying with them. Bad seed!
A) Slaughtering entire populations was quite common in this historical area. Equating that to modern day ISIS is beyond stupid because we’re not living in the Bronze age. B) Canaanites worshiped Baal and Molok, gods that required regular sacrifices of children into burning metal idols. Cry me a river about having their civilizations destroyed.
InvisibleChurch wrote:
Tha canaans had over four centuries to change their ways. God will only stand for child sacrifice to Molech for so long.
So, how long until California experiences "The Big One"TM up close and personal?
Why did God destroy humanity with a flood, all but one boat full?
Very stealthful, disingenuous article!
The thoughts expressed in the Bible are literally true, regardless of whether you are comfortable with how they are expressed.
The apostles ask Jesus to interpret his parables, and to tell them what they mean, several times.
Some phrases are used in several different ways where in context, they have different meanings. We need to pick one in each case.
Literal meaning of the Bible, as I have looked at it, is far from clear in a lot of cases.
I often ask God for clarification.
Another thing that I have noticed in studying the Bible is that the Bible is quite likely literally correct in recording what a person says. That does not mean what the person said is true or without error.
Good question dumb article. The Old Testament is really monotheism Version .5. Absent monotheism, every nation had it’s own god(s), who obviously commanded them to destroy their enemies completely. It took the conceit of the Jews as the “chosen people” to get the monotheism party started, but it’s not fully in place until Jesus. Jesus would not have commanded any nation to destroy any other.
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