The old testament is filled with genocide after genocide after genocide. But what people seem to forget, is that this is the way conquest was done.
As a military, you simply cannot leave anyone behind you who may be trouble. The best way to deal with that, was to leave no one behind you. This was not new at the time, history is full of such things.
But to say that God did not order the absolute killing of everyone, i.e. every man, woman, child, and beast, is simply not true. It is spelled out very clearly, and was carried out per very specific orders, for very good military reasons.
RE: But to say that God did not order the absolute killing of everyone, i.e. every man, woman, child, and beast, is simply not true. It is spelled out very clearly, and was carried out per very specific orders, for very good military reasons.
Is there a difference between JUSTIFIABLE (Commanded by God based on His omniscience and wisdom) and UNJUSTIFIABLE genocide? (Killing for no good reason ).
Or is the moral argument this -— no genocide is justifiable and what the Israelites did was evil?
RE: The old testament is filled with genocide after genocide after genocide. But what people seem to forget, is that this is the way conquest was done.
But aren’t the people of God supposed to be different from the nations around them?