***totally justified in giving His command to Israel to totally destroy the Canaanites.***
And yet, God gave them a 400 year reprieve while Israel was in Egypt.
The ancient Sifra commentary on Lev. 18:3 specifically says the Egyptians and Canaanites had same sex marriage contracts.
Who are the Canaanites today?
Sounds like San Franshitsco.
“{C} Murdered Their Own Children {Molech}.”
I’d put that higher than (C).
That list is so hard to read. I often wondered at Sodom and Gomorrah and the sin of men with men, this is so much worse... America is so underserved of any of Gods blessings. I am looking forward to a new dictator whose name is Jesus. He will rule with truth and justice. All will be required to bend the knees to Him. It will truly be a time of peace during the earthly millennium then eternity is before us who have heard His voice and follow Him.
What bothers many many readers of the Old Testament is why God, after commanding Israel not to murder, uses their nation as an instrument of genocide to punish.
Why not just destroy the Canaanites the same way He destroyed Sodom and Gomorah and not involve people killing other men, women and children?
Several months ago a FReeper made a comment about Michael Heiser and the Genesis 6 conspiracy. I wasn't familiar with either, but I was curious, so I started doing a little research and it all ties into this thread pretty neatly.
"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them." Genesis 6:4
Some believe the Nephilim were directly responsible for the earth being so corrupt that God ultimately sent the Flood, destroying all life, except for Noah with his wife, his three sons and their wives, and the animals on the ark. And yet, the Israelites encountered the descendants of the Nephilim, among the Canaanites, when they entered the promised land much later on. How did the Nephilim survive the Flood?
"... Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. Genesis 6:9
The Bible says Noah, was righteous and blameless, but Genesis 6:12 says "all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth." It seems reasonable that if all flesh was corrupt, except for Noah, then someone else on the ark must have been the source for the post-Flood appearance of the Nephilim.
Shortly after the flood, Noah cursed his grandson, Canaan (it's a long story), the ancestor of the Canaanites. The Canaanites represented a continuation of the corrupt line that led to the Flood, so it makes perfect sense that God would want that very specific line destroyed, because permitting them to continue on would only result in the earth becoming utterly corrupt again.
The Canaanites didn't sink to the bottom on the immorality scale, they were at the bottom from their very beginning.
How did the Canaanites have any time or energy for farming or building?
>They Had Sunk To The Very Bottom On The Immorality Scale:<
Let’s not be too proud of our lifestyle.
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Its surprising that, so soon after the flood, the tribes were starting to go off the deep end again, as if the flood had never happened.
It looks to me that Canaan’s tribe were supposed to have gone further south into Egypt and North Africa to settle, but had settled on land that was set aside for Shem’s clan, which would be Abraham’s family. As it is, when Abraham went to Canaan in the beginning, he did so peacefully and was (mostly) accepted peacefully.
They later settled in Egypt due to the famine, and then settled in to stay. Again, they were never supposed to be in Egypt, Canaan was land promised to them, not Egypt. So while Abraham was able to settle there peacefully, when they came back centuries later they had to fight their way in.
When Israel returned they were told to drive Canaan out completely. They didn’t, so the survivors settled around and amongst them. This was in part the source of problems later. They were ordered not to intermarry with them, but again, that was ignored and was the source of problems later.
At least they did not own slaves.