Everything you mentioned below is part of the Law of Moses, which in at least some Christians' belief has been abolished by the atonement work of
Jesus Christ on the Cross. His death was necessary to satisfy justice by taking the penalty for sin onto Himself. No one passed under the Law, all
were worthy only of death and we would all perish under it. The atonement, while taking place in time at Golgotha, is eternal and covers all who
trust God regardless of their works, for all time, including both Old Testament and New Testament saints.
The problem of Canaan is that they stood in the way, opposed to God's will, and would not move. It was a people whose sin had reached its full
measure and who were in perpetual rebellion against the Lord, and as such, if they were allowed to, would oppress the followers of God terribly.
There was nothing that could be done with them except to kill them. God is slow to anger and merciful and I'm sure there was plenty of time for them
to get the message because in previous generations the people of God had ruled them, under Abraham and Jacob. They were also left alone when the
Israelites went to Egypt; it's part of the walk of faith for God to withdraw His obvious presence to see if the teaching of faith takes effect or
not.
In Canaan, it did not make a dent; instead, they failed to take heed from previous lessons of their encounters with Israel, particularly the war they
provoked by raping Dinah, the sister of the children of Jacob. The first city to fall to Israel had but one family in it that not only knew the
history but put enough trust in Rahab to follow her in keeping the spies from Israel hidden. As a result her clan, the Kenites, even though
Midianites, escaped Jericho alive and eventually merged with the Judahites, becoming the clan of Rechabite scholars that no doubt helped preserve the
story of Jericho.
The land belonged to the faithers descended from Shem; it had been given to him in God's promises to Noah as outlined in apocryphal literature that
survives to this day. The descendants of Ham, inheritors of the animal cloak that their ancestor stole from Noah, had moved in and were squatting.
God made the decision to give the land to Abraham and his seed forever. There was not a condition on that, it belongs to Abraham's seed, the seed of
faith, through Isaac and Jacob, forever. That the Hamites, particularly the Canaanites, had turned against God and set their face against Israel
despite their own prophet's warning as it appears in Numbers, proves they were not fit to live there, they were squatters when the generation after
Shem lost it to the Hamites, they were squatters when it was promised to Abram, and they were squatters when Israel drove them out under orders from
God.
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
Originally posted by Amenti
go check the thread you started on this, i will show you a thing or two
so far you've yet to even answer any of the questions i posted. do you believe that we should kill:
homosexuals?
blasphemers?
idol-makers?
those that take the name of the lord in vain?
sabbath-breakers?
those that don't honor their parents?
murderers?
adulterers?
thieves?
liars?
coveters?
and disobedient children?
and one more thing... you mentioned "the flood"
now, i shoudl assume you mean the great euphrates flood that covered a significant part of mesopotamia... but i think you meant the gilgamesh/genesis
flood.
can you prove that said flood happened?
listen, if you're a christian there are two ways to see it.
either the bible is metaphorical or god is a prick. because if the bible is literal, the figure of god is most certainly a prick