The Sins Of The Canaanites: Blood-Lust, Murder, Incest, Sex With Animals

JAG 5000

[JAG 5000]

The takeaway point in all this below is that the God of the Bible was totally justified in giving His command to Israel to totally destroy the Canaanites.

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The Canaanites Were Not Salvageable --- They Had Sunk To The Very Bottom On The Immorality Scale:

{A} Cold Blooded Murder.

{B} Incest With Close Family Members.

{C} Murdered Their Own Children {Molech}.

{D} Blood-Lust Gory Murder Religious Ceremonies.

{E} Sex With Animals.

God's purpose was to get rid of all that up there and replace it with the religion of the nation of Israel which prohibited all such vile sins.

"The Lord said to Moses, speak to the Israelites and say to them, You must not do as they do in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you.

Do not follow their practices." Leviticus 18:1-3

"Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways {listed in Leviticus 18:6-23} because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled."

"For all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you" Leviticus 18:27

". . . the detestable customs that were practiced before you came" Leviticus 18:30

So what were they doing that was so bad?

Here is the list of the sins of the Canaanites:

(1) They were having sex with their close family members. Leviticus 18:6

(2) They were having sex with their mothers. Leviticus 18:7

(3) They were having sex with their sisters. Leviticus 18:9

(4) They were having sex with their grandchildren. Leviticus 18:10

(5) They were having sex with their aunts. Leviticus 18:14

(6) They were having sex with their daughters-in law. Leviticus 18:15

(7) They were having sex with their brother's wife. Leviticus 18:16

( 8 ] They were having sex with their neighbor's wife.. Leviticus 18:20

(9) They were having homosexual sex. Leviticus 18:22

(10) They were giving their children to be murdered in sacrifice to Molech. Leviticus 18:21

Now The Canaanites Had Sunk To Bestiality.

(11) The Canaanites were having sex with animals. Leviticus 18:23

(12) Their women were specifically mentioned as having sex with animals. Leviticus 18:23

There was a total of 6 tribes that were practicing (1) through (12) up there:

Hittites Amorites Canaanites Perizzites Hivites Jebusites All 6 tribes are generally referred to as the "Canaanites." Deuteronomy 20:16-18

The command of God to the Israelites in Deuteronomy 20:16 "do not leave alive anything that breathes" was applicable only to these 6 tribes that were practicing (1) through (12) listed up-post.

All the other many tribes and cities that were living at a distance from the Canaanites were to be offered an opportunity to make peace

with the Israelites and were never the object of total annihilation as was the 6 totally corrupt Canaanite nations.

See Deuteronomy 20:11 and Deuteronomy 20:15 on the offer of peace to be made to the nations living at a distance from the Canaanites.

The reason for the offer of peace was that these nations living at a distance from the Canaanites were morally salvageable and they were accordingly shown mercy if they would agree to make peace with the Israelites.

Repeat . . . The Canaanites Were Not Salvageable --- They Had Sunk To The Very Bottom Of The Immorality Scale:

{A} Cold Blooded Murder.

{B} Incest With Close Family Members.

{C} Murdered Their Own Children {Molech}

{D} Blood-Lust Gory Murder Religious Ceremonies.

{E} Sex With Animals.

"washed her hands in human gore" . . . .

Start quote. Consider the bloodlust and violence of the Canaanite deity Anath, the patroness of both war and sex.

The late archaeologist William Albright describes the Canaanite deity Anath's massacre in the following gory scene.

The blood was so deep that she waded in it up to her knees -- nay, up to her neck. Under her feet were human heads, above her human hands flew like locusts.

In her sensuous delight she decorated herself with suspended (human) heads while she attached (human) hands to her girdle.

Her joy at the butchery is described in even more sadistic language. Her liver swelled with laughter, her heart was full of joy, the liver of Anath (was full of) exultation.

Afterwards Anath was satisfied and washed her hands in human gore before proceeding to other occupations. End quote.

The above quote regarding Anath is from Is God A Moral Monster: Making Sense Of The Old Testament God, by Paul Copan, page 159

So?

So in light of all the above up-post, the following seems very reasonable . . . .

"However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance,

do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them-the Hittites,

Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites-as the LORD your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you

to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God. __Deuteronomy 20:16-18

. . . . . in light of: The Sins Of The Canaanites: Blood-Lust, Murder, Incest, Sex With Animals.

CONCLUSION: The God of the Bible was totally justified in giving His command to the nation of Israel to totally destroy the Canaanite tribes

because they were not salvageable. Blood-lust, murder, close family member incest, sex with animals.

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[JAG 5000]

““...to be sure we ain’t sunk that low...”

. We are Christians and should know better. The canaanites were totally oblivious of God’s law and are therefore less culpable. I repeat, let’s not be too proud of our lifestyle.”__353FMG

If you want to keep your point that bad, then okeeee.
But you still got:
Canaanites Doing:
Blood-lust and Bloody Gore Murder {see the OP}
Cold blooded murder of their children in religious rituals
Sex With Close family members Incest.
Sex With Animals. Yeah. Sex With Animals.
Murder and violence.
Its all in the Opening Post with the Biblical texts quoted.

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What are the sins of America?
Try this:

Gay Marriage
Abortion
Pornography
Serial Divorce.& Remarriage
Public Nudity On Beaches
Public Nudity In Night Clubs
Nudity & Vile Vulgar Language In Movies.
Use of Illegal drugs.
Hate speech on the Internet.

All THAT is surely BAD.
BUT it does not compare with the vile filthy Canaanites.
At least not in my book.

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[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Ah. Those guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02v0301n0aU

[JAG 5000]

You make some good points.
Yah. Old Genghis Khan was a bad dude, to be sure.
I’m not here to argue that the Canaanites were the VERY WORSE humans that ever lived.
I do NOT mean to be hostile when I say that I don’t really care who was worse morally the C’s or Old GK.
Who cares?

The C’s were very bad:

Blood-lust and Bloody Gore Murder {see the OP}
Cold blooded murder of their children in religious rituals
Sex With Close family members Incest.
Sex With Animals. Yeah. Sex With Animals.
Murder and violence.
Its all in the Opening Post with the Biblical texts quoted.

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And Old GK was a very mean dude.
Shame on you Genghis, you scoundrel. LOL

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Then we have
Old Adolph Hitler
Stalin
Mao
Pol Pot.

All very bad dudes, to be sure.

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[JAG 5000]

Thanks.

[353FMG]

>At least not in my book.<

Your book may not be the correct measuring stick and neither may be mine.

[sport]

At least they did not own slaves.

[cloudmountain]

All very bad dudes, to be sure.

And, isn't it odd that the VERY worst was one of God's "favorite" angels--Lucifer-turned-Satan?
God KNEW that Lucifer would betray him, yet God still created him.

But then, Jesus KNEW that Judas would betray Him, yet He still allowed Judas to do that.

Our sins seem to pale before those two sins.
Just an opinion.