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To: b4me
I don’t know how God in the Bible determined when it was ok for Jews to go and kill a whole group of people as He some times told them to. I doubt most Jewish men were thrilled with doing it.

In all seriousness, I had a problem with it too. Then one day re-reading the Bible yet again I came across this nugget in Genesis 15:12-16:

12 When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him. 13 God said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. 14 But on that nation whom your descendants will serve I will bring judgment, and afterward they will come out [of that land] with great possessions. 15 As for you, you shall [die and] go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. 16 Then in the [e]fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the [f]Amorites is not yet complete (finished).”

For context, the Amorites were the dominating tribe in Canaan. And some say they had probably been doing the idol worship, sexual sin, child sacrifice thing even two centuries before the 4 centuries that the Jews were slaves (so a total of 6 centuries). Thus, one way to look at it is that God was VERY PATIENT, 4-6 centuries of patience, hoping they'd return back to Him. And if He hadn't dropped the hammer on the Canaanites, their ways may have infected everybody else's ways . Something He'd like to avoid after He gave his promise that He wouldn't flood the world again.

19 posted on 02/21/2025 10:57:46 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

thanks.
Trying to think outside my own mind. Cannot imagine being IDF or anyone who has to deal with people so caught up IN their own mind of hate/victimhood.

Jews didn’t get all the land they wanted either but they try repeatedly to make peace, most times to their own detriment.

It’s amazing how God allows some people a continual “lets get along” spirit, while others super selfish.
thanks for the verse.


29 posted on 02/21/2025 11:19:09 AM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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