And...do we have any evidence 4 uwat Olds were killed by anyone BUT the people God told the israelists to destroy or drive away.
You are asking me? I don’t think there was much of one happening. Sure maybe some incidents happened. I think this article answers what actually happened.
Every once in a while a detractor of the Christian faith objects that Christianity is ethically bankrupt because Christians worship a deity who ordered a genocide of all the inhabitants of Canaan when the Israelites entered the land under the leadership of Joshua. They
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Some people say that the people of Canaan were not fully human and mixed with angels/demons and were giants. But I think the correct answer is that when the Bible says they killed everyone they did not actually kill everyone.
You can’t read the Bible and just plainly get the information you need. You have to understand it in its context have to understand the language and the way people used the language back then. When the Bible says that they killed all the people they mean that they broke them militarily and humbled them.
But if you follow a Protestant tradition where you just pick it up and have a plain reading then you will conclude that they killed them all everyone totally.
To have them join your culture and raise them as your own citizens.
Come on. Kill all of the men, and boys, and all women who have known a man. But you can keep virgin women for yourself? When ISIS does this do you think they do what you say?
Deteronomy 21:11 and onwards contains some clear instructions regulating rape:
21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, 21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
tl;dr: Kidnap her, shave her head, clip her nails, let her cry for a month and then force yourself on her. She's yours.
ISIS hostages are also considered "wives" of the militants.
Which pagan tribes? That is such a blanket term it goes from Egyptians to Greeks to Romans, to Norse to fucking Hindu.
I was talking about the Caanites/Phonecia I mean the Ndws and Christians say all pagans were more promiscuous but the Phoenicians even more since even the Romans who were pagans called them out as baby killing degenerates.
*look at Malmady massacre*
Yes that was a war crime and was punished. US also did war crimes. That is not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about genocide which was not against international law back then.
Didn't the Germans consider it a war with the Jews?
The Jews did not have a country then so it would be ex post facto.
Natural Rights. People here are talking about the idea of Natural Rights.
The most basic of Natural Rights is the Right to Life. Thus, condemning murder in its many forms is an affirmation of that Right.
The Right to own Property is considered another of the most basic of Natural Rights, and again the Bible clearly condones the idea of private property to the point where in many respects it considers what we would consider a "free market" economy to be taken for granted as many Proverbs deal with money and property, and Jesus himself taught extensively about money and even used investing as a Parable for how God gave different people different physical and mental gifts and then expected them to provide him a Return on Investment. That parable was so influential that even to this day we use the name of the money in the parable to refer to people's skills and abilities: "talent".
The Right to Equal Justice Under the Law, with rulers being accountable to the Law and not above it is, as also noted, very much founded in the Bible.
Yes, many modern conceptions of "rights" are not found there, but that has to do with the perversion that Marxists and Leftists have introduced over the years to what is considered a "Right". For instance, Voting as a Right is a very new concept, previous to the 20th century it was generally considered a Privilege for those members of society who have earned it. The original Natural Rights framework as originally understood would not have seen it as an explicit Right per se.
If that is how you define rights then you are correct that Christianity and the Bible does protect that. But that is very limited and not what most modern people mean when they say rights.
The way we use it in modern language is synonymous with choice. I can choose to do or not do this. AKA you have the freedom to do good bad neutral etc. You are using it as you have the freedom to do good and good only.
For example with religion in the Old Testament the kings of Israel were called evil and wicked if they forced the people to worship foreign gods and kill the prophets of God, and desecrate his place of worship. But the kings were not called wicked if they forced people to worship god and stop worshipping pagan gods and killed the pagan priests and destroyed pagan shrines. In fact they would be called righteous.
This is not how any American understands freedom of religion. From what you say which is correct from the Bible God gives you the freedom of religion to worship God correctly. If the government bans Christianity then they are wicked and sinning and violating your god given rights.
But if the government banned non Christian faiths like say Islam or Buddhism then no the law makers would not be sinning for doing that or taking away your god given rights.
Since he joined the army.
Thats a bit too far this has nothing to do with modern politics and you don’t know if Zach ever did a war crime you should apologize to him for what you said.