tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post7602681062204915573..comments2024-03-20T10:47:46.434-07:00Comments on Annotated Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Thou shalt utterly destroy them (Joshua, Holy War)Bruckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-62143852788393443322016-09-11T02:19:25.579-07:002016-09-11T02:19:25.579-07:00How do you stop murderers, rapists, child molestor...How do you stop murderers, rapists, child molestors, etc from doing evil?<br />What if the people perpetrating these evil acts are whole nation groups, if their evil deeds are just deemed normal in their own culture? <br />What if the crimes perpetrated by the SS against the jews, the ukranians, etc were to be spread to the whole german nation? How would a smaller nation, 3000 years ago, be able Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10562680814728741989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-22328170954893029712015-10-26T16:56:32.384-07:002015-10-26T16:56:32.384-07:00And since canaan was promised to the Israelites wh...<i>And since canaan was promised to the Israelites when it was already populated, the warning would most likely be "stop sinning and you won't be destroyed...by the way you'll have to take your families, leave your home's and leave your nation. Find some other land to live in so God can replace you with a bunch of wandering tribes".</i><br /><br />Predestination. They were Bruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-63988282020056670542015-10-23T15:40:20.009-07:002015-10-23T15:40:20.009-07:00"It sounds like you're expecting God to g..."It sounds like you're expecting God to grade on a curve. I think God deals in moral absolutes, and it's not okay to do something evil just because "everybody's doing it".<br /><br />The god of the bible does seem to deal in absolutes, but within those absolutes of right and wrong, love and hate, are related attributes such as patience and mercy. Where were the warningsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-4143333092397613482015-10-19T12:23:10.186-07:002015-10-19T12:23:10.186-07:00This is Brucker posting; for some reason, my brows...This is Brucker posting; for some reason, my browser won't let me log in.<br /><br /><i>You can accuse them of being wicked for idolatry or human sacrifice, but these were well known practices in the ancient world, practiced in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Although it was not enlightened of them it seems unfair to call them "wicked" and deserving of genocide.</i><br /><br />It Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-81750207903540163522015-10-19T05:07:35.736-07:002015-10-19T05:07:35.736-07:00The Christian apologetics view on God sanctioned g...The Christian apologetics view on God sanctioned genocide is interesting. Brucker said the nation's that were wiped out only had themselves to blame because they were warned and didn't repent. But in the context of human culture in these times, these nations were behaving normally. You can accuse them of being wicked for idolatry or human sacrifice, but these were well known practices in Ironitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-80987320696437865702009-11-10T16:47:30.688-08:002009-11-10T16:47:30.688-08:00Let me suggest another reading of such passages th...Let me suggest another reading of such passages that, while not as literalistic as the one you are going for here on this blog, is still safely within the bounds of orthodoxy and responsible.<br /><br />They got it wrong. God never ordered the destruction of anyone.<br /><br />One of the errors we often fall into as Christians is viewing the Bible as revealed, in the sense that Muslims believe marauder34https://www.blogger.com/profile/00651154474169358422noreply@blogger.com