Did God Commit Genocide In The Old Testament?

God's command for the Israelites to kill the people of Canaan was not genocide because this was God's moral judgement against a nation for their wickedness, not for their ethnicity. God gave them 400 years to repent before destroying them. God, as the author of all life, owes life to nobody, and so to withhold the right to life from those who are abusing it is not "genocide" nor "evil."

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OLAADEGBU:
Did God Commit Genocide In The Old Testament?

"³³Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge!
How impossible it is for us to understand His decisions and His ways!
³⁴For who can know the LORD’s thoughts?
Who knows enough to give him advice?
³⁵And who has given Him so much that He needs to pay it back?
(i.e. Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?)
³⁶For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory.
All glory to him forever! Amen."
- Romans 11:33

Capital No, God did not commit genocide

OLAADEGBU:
God's command for the Israelites to kill the people of Canaan was not genocide because this was God's moral judgement against a nation for their wickedness, not for their ethnicity

"But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed."
- Romans 2:5

Absolutely correct. Apparently the people of Canaan's cup of wrath had filled and runneth over

OLAADEGBU:
God gave them 400 years to repent before destroying them.

"¹³God said to Abram,
"You can know for sure that your descendants will live in a land that is not their own, where they will be slaves,
and they will be oppressed for 400 years (i.e. be forced into slavery and abused for 400 years)
¹⁴But I will punish the nation they serve, and after that they will come out with many possessions.
¹⁵But you will die in peace and be buried at a very old age.
¹⁶In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, because the sin of the Amorites will not have run its course until then (i.e. because only then will the people who live here be so sinful that they deserve to be punished)"
- Genesis 15:13-16

430 years to be precise, they were given, well 30 years added as bonus

OLAADEGBU:
God, as the author of all life, owes life to nobody, and so to withhold the right to life from those who are abusing it, is not "genocide" nor "evil."

"¹⁶Whenever you capture towns in the land the Lord your God is giving you, be sure to kill all the people and animals.
¹⁷He has commanded you to completely wipe out the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
¹⁸If you allow them to live, they will persuade you to worship their disgusting gods, and you will be unfaithful to the Lord."
- Deuteronomy 20:16

God gives us life and takes lives away as He sees and/or deem fit.

This is disturbing

BeLookingIDIOT:


This is disturbing

Tell us what is disturbing you, a holy God?

Wow. Just wow. How do you people continue to stomach this drivel? Justifying genocide? Can you go any lower?

LordReed:


Wow. Just wow. How do you people continue to stomach this drivel? Justifying genocide? Can you go any lower?

Do you also believe God committed genocide?

OLAADEGBU:


Do you also believe God committed genocide?

Your god can not commit anything. What is disgusting is you justifying genocide because it was written in your storybook. It's sick.

LordReed:


Your god can not commit anything. What is disgusting is you justifying genocide because it was written in your storybook. It's sick.

Thanks for answering the question. God did not commit genocide.

God never "murders" anyone. He is a righteous Judge, and you have been given the death sentence (along with every other human being). However, He's rich in mercy and offers you a reprieve. Take it or leave it--life or death, Heaven or Hell.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 13 June 2017 ·
www.livingwaters.com

OLAADEGBU:


Thanks for answering the question. God did not commit genocide.

God never "murders" anyone. He is a righteous Judge, and you have been given the death sentence (along with every other human being). However, He's rich in mercy and offers you a reprieve. Take it or leave it--life or death, Heaven or Hell.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/official.Ray.Comfort 13 June 2017 ·
www.livingwaters.com

LoL! It cannot commit murder because it doesn't exist. Your defense of genocide is even more sick knowing that it is for an imaginary being.

LordReed:


LoL! It cannot commit murder because it doesn't exist. Your defense of genocide is even more sick knowing that it is for an imaginary being.

If God is just an imaginary being why then take a panadol for someone else's headache, is it your hatred God?

OLAADEGBU:


If God is just an imaginary being why then take a panadol for someone else's headache, is it your hatred God?

LoL, I am disgusted at this defense of genocide so who am I taking panadol for?

OLAADEGBU,if God ordered you to do what they did i.e genocide.You would have done that right.I mean,you do it personally like strangle a child to death and keeping a little girl child as part of your war spoils(sex slave).You would have done all these right?

God Almighty, the creator of Jehovah doesn't commit genocide. However, Yahweh committed genocide at is is well recorded in the BOOK OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY.

BeLookingIDIOT:


OLAADEGBU,if God ordered you to do what they did i.e genocide.You would have done that right.I mean,you do it personally like strangle a child to death and keeping a little girl child as part of your war spoils(sex slave).You would have done all these right?

Do you believe God can order anyone to commit genocide?

LordReed:


LoL, I am disgusted at this defense of genocide so who am I taking panadol for?

So you really believe genocide took place in the OT?

OLAADEGBU:


Do you believe God can order anyone to commit genocide?

Ok,sorry.OLAADEGBU,if God ordered you to do what they did i.egenocide wipe out entire races so they dont persuade you for worshipping their "disgusting gods".You would have done that right.I mean,you do it personally like strangle a child to death and keeping a little girl child as part of your war spoils(sex slave).You would have done all these right?

BeLookingIDIOT:


Ok,sorry.OLAADEGBU,if God ordered you to do what they did i.egenocide wipe out entire races so they dont persuade you for worshipping their "disgusting gods".You would have done that right.I mean,you do it personally like strangle a child to death and keeping a little girl child as part of your war spoils(sex slave).You would have done all these right?

My answer will depend on you answering the question I asked earlier. Do you believe God committed genocide?

LordReed:


LoL, I am disgusted at this defense of genocide so who am I taking panadol for?

Everything came from dust and everything will surely return to dust at death!

God asked the Israelites to destroy all those waiting to drag issues with them concerning the land of Canaan, because that's the order of the day! Back then all the nations believes in the survival of the fittest so they don't drag issues with someone stronger than them, it's either they surrender or flee.

But these nations were going against their own norms. After hearing all what the God of Israel did to the greatest power of their time EGYPT, they've heard how God destroyed Pharoah and all his armies without the Israelites fighting. Yet they were still contemplating fighting against the people under the protection of such an invincible God!

Well going by their own rules they deserve to die, they are the judges over their own souls! So God asked the Israelites to destroy all their males because this one's will grow up for vengeance but since females don't fight back then, they should be spared!

This may sound crazy but ask any society today what happens if a man or woman walks into a court of law and declared himself to be condemned as in executed.
What the law of all communities say is that, he should first be tested whether he is mentally unstable but if after the test they discovered that he is sane, then the law says HE MUST BE EXECUTED WITHOUT DELAY!

OLAADEGBU:


So you really believe genocide took place in the OT?

Does it have to be real for me to be disgusted by your defense?

Maximus69:


Everything came from dust and everything will surely return to dust at death!

God asked the Israelites to destroy all those waiting to drag issues with them concerning the land of Canaan, because that's the order of the day! Back then all the nations believes in the survival of the fittest so they don't drag issues with someone stronger than them, it's either they surrender or flee.

But these nations were going against their own norms. After hearing all what the God of Israel did to the greatest power of their time EGYPT, they've heard how God destroyed Pharoah and all his armies without the Israelites fighting. Yet they were still contemplating fighting against the people under the protection of such an invincible God!

Well going by their own rules they deserve to die, they are the judges over their own souls! So God asked the Israelites to destroy all their males because this one's will grow up for vengeance but since females don't fight back then, they should be spared!

This may sound crazy but ask any society today what happens if a man or woman walks into a court of law and declared himself to be condemned as in executed.
What the law of all communities say is that, he should first be tested whether he is mentally unstable but if after the test they discovered that he is sane, then the law says HE MUST BE EXECUTED WITHOUT DELAY!

You people are sick.

LordReed:


You people are sick.

I can't say of another person, but as i live Sir.

If going by your opinion Sir, i know i'm SERIOUSLY sick!
1Corinthians 2:14

BeLookingIDIOT:

Ok,sorry.OLAADEGBU,if God ordered you to do what they did i.egenocide wipe out entire races so they dont persuade you for worshipping their "disgusting gods".You would have done that right.I mean,you do it personally like strangle a child to death and keeping a little girl child as part of your war spoils(sex slave).You would have done all these right?

Which Christian would not obey the Lord of Hosts

If we do not kill and rape at His command woe be unto us...

...and then Hellfire!!

Obey today.

OLAADEGBU:


My answer will depend on you answering the question I asked earlier. Do you believe God committed genocide?

Didn't He wipe out entire races

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2agGEqgigA


CHRISTIANS CAN JUSTIFY ANY ACTION OF THEIR GOD. DEBATING THEM IS A WASTE OF TIME IN MY OPINION.

LordReed:


Does it have to be real for me to be disgusted by your defense?

I don't see you disgusted with those who propagate and defend fairytales such as leprechauns and unicorns.

Aaronsrod:


Which Christian would not obey the Lord of Hosts

If we do not kill and rape at His command woe be unto us...

...and then Hellfire!!

Obey today.

Do you believe genocide truly happened in the OT days?

BeLookingIDIOT:


Didn't He wipe out entire races

That was my original question, did He?

Dantedasz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2agGEqgigA


CHRISTIANS CAN JUSTIFY ANY ACTION OF THEIR GOD. DEBATING THEM IS A WASTE OF TIME IN MY OPINION.

Are you a good person?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSUKIhjevo

OLAADEGBU:


I don't see you disgusted with those who propagate and defend fairytales such as leprechauns and unicorns.

I will also be disgusted with them if they came up with defense of genocide based on their belief in leprechauns and unicorns.

God is consciousness personified... So the battles are within..

LordReed:


I will also be disgusted with them if they came up with defense of genocide based on their belief in leprechauns and unicorns.

There is nothing more dangerous than atheists playing God.

OLAADEGBU:


There is nothing more dangerous than atheists playing God.

Non sequitur