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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Tha canaans had over four centuries to change their ways. God will only stand for child sacrifice to Molech for so long.
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.
Why did God destroy humanity with a flood, all but one boat full?
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.
Trump utterly destroyed Clinton. But Clinton is still around.
Understand?
Jeremiah 7
16 “As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you. 17 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me. 19 Do they spite Me?” declares the LORD. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?” 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”
God is most righteous and just. There are some tribes (nations) that were annihilated, but these same people knew of the power and works of the living God of Israel and rejected Him. They had heard of the exodus and the miraculous battles of Israel yet they would still sacrifice their own children to their false god.
God even waited patiently until they were totally lost. When Abraham was receiving his promise from God His last explanation was crucial to His giving the promised land to Abraham's children of faith.
Gen 15:12-16
12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him. 13 God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. 14 But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16 Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”
Cortez’s reaction to the Aztecs was much the same as Moses and Joshua’s reaction to the Caananites and for much the same reasons.
Did God cause the Holocaust?
Art Katz was a NY atheist/communist Jewish intellectual in the upper crust and had a profound conversion to Christ (”Ben Israell” the book) and later proposed with great proof that the Holocaust was brought on the Jews themselves for their repeated rejection of their God Ignoring God’s warnings to them over thousands of years.
His book was initially violently rejected by most Christian leaders (who formerly had great respect for him), but over time more and more saw Art’s arguments to be too strong to refute.
A powerful book: The Holocaust: Where was God?
Also read his autobiography, Ben Israel
The power of Germany and Japan was utterly destroyed during World War II.
Furthermore, judging G-d by the standards of an allegedly independent morality is a slippery slope that led to exactly where we are today.
What most people miss in this biblical account is something which is consistently hidden or hushed over since the times of Noah... but the bible is pretty clear about it.
The reason God told Israel to utterly destroy (genocide) multiple tribes is the same reason He wiped out the earth with the flood.
It was not a judgment against men.
It was an eradication of the Nephillum blood line.
Nephillum are human/angelic hybrids.
Why did God tell them to wipe out all those tribes???
Simple... they were not human.
Furthermore... It was foretold by Jesus that the same incursion would occur again in the last days.
God promised Moses that He would give a number of nations into Israel’s hand at a future time when their sin would be ripe.
Genesis 15:16 MKJV
(16) But in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
This implies God’s judgement and the resulting decree as to their fate. In this case, they were to be disenfranchised of their lands and Israel would take their place.
Lest anyone think that God is partial in judgement, when Israel’s sins reached a certain level, He caused great invading armies to kill many and to take the few who survived captives into exile.
This is not as arcane as it may seem. God may yet one day judge us similarly. At the time of the US War of Northern Aggression, many people concluded that the deaths and destruction were God’s punishment for the national sin of slavery.
(People who don’t believe in God, don’t accept that theory and seek to impose their own punishment for that sin. Or better yet, to just continue to complain about the sin and to leave the painful wound open and festering because it works to their ideological advantage.)
What Book of Joshua have they been reading? It is clear in the Book of Joshua, even out of the words of Joshua's mouth, that a remnant of Canaanites and others were still there.
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Joshua 23:11-13 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. 12Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: 13Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
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Also, other some other verses in Joshua that let the reader out by any means.
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Joshua 15:63 for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
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Joshua 16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
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Joshua 17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.