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Why did God kill the Amorites (Canaanites)?

tosca1 said:
For all of you who are so shocked and disgusted that God would kill all Amorites (including innocent children) - you have lost the fact that.................. GOD CAN DO ANYTHING HE WANTS WITH HIS CREATION!


Lol - if wiping out the Amorites gets you all going beside yourselves - have you ever thought about the flood of NOAH?
When God wiped out entirely all living creatures (including children and animals) ...................................except for a handful which He had saved?

Everything He wipes out, have one thing in common: sin in them, had gone to full measure!



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What does it mean that “the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure” (Genesis 15:16)? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean that “the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure”? What is the meaning of Genesis 15:16?
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Ah yes, the old “genocide is okay because we think God wants it” load of trash.
 
Dragonfly said:
That murders babies, toddlers, and children.
That destroys all living animals (save a few pairs) and plants in a fit of childish rage.

Great guy.


By the way - I'm still waiting for non-biased evidence that the Amorites were who the Bible says they were.
You got any?
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They belong to Him...
 
tosca1 said:
There is more to that, you know. It has to do with the legal custom of the time.
Not only did he refuse to carry out his familial duty - but, he had sex with his sister in-law for nothing!


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Why did God kill Onan for spilling his seed on the ground? | carm.org

God killed Onan for spilling his seed on the ground because he refused to perform his familial duties of producing offspring for his brother
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Still, His acting against the small potatoes that was seed spilling, whatever the motivation, and ignoring centuries of killings was, as Jesus would later put it, "straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel."
 
devildavid said:
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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GOD is protecting those HE loves ----- not actually punishing them. If you were a German Jew, would you really want a Nazi as your neighbor? If GOD chose to destroy that neighbor, would you being a Jew really say, "Well GOD, two wrongs don't make a right."
 
LittleNipper said:
GOD is protecting those HE loves ----- not actually punishing them. If you were a German Jew, would you really want a Nazi as your neighbor? If GOD chose to destroy that neighbor, would you being a Jew really say, "Well GOD, two wrongs don't make a right."
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Two wrongs don’t make a right.
 
Dragonfly said:
Did god destroy Nazi’s?

Was there a great “smiting” of Nazi’s at some point in the 1940’s that can only be attributed to some supernatural entity?
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HE didn't have to because they self destructed.
 
Jehovah cannot be good and do nothing about evil...He always, always, always gives humans time to change...

"In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” Genesis 15:16

He also grieves when humans fail to change...

"Jehovah saw that man’s wickedness was great on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only bad all the time. Jehovah regretted that he had made men on the earth, and his heart was saddened." Genesis 6:5,6
 
Elora said:
Jehovah cannot be good and do nothing about evil..
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Based on that^ positive claim, by definition, you have 'personally' put forth limitations on Jehovah's powers/abilities, and declared that Jehovah is 'not' Omnipotent.
 
Logician Man said:
Based on that^ positive claim, by definition, you have 'personally' put forth limitations on Jehovah's powers/abilities, and declared that Jehovah is 'not' Omnipotent.
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If you cannot accept a perfect GOD, why are you harping.
 
LittleNipper said:
GOD is protecting those HE loves ----- not actually punishing them. If you were a German Jew, would you really want a Nazi as your neighbor? If GOD chose to destroy that neighbor, would you being a Jew really say, "Well GOD, two wrongs don't make a right."
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I think the German Jews would have an major objection if God “ordered” them to kill every last non Jewish German down to the smallest infant, like any sane human being, actually
 
Tigerace117 said:
I think the German Jews would have an major objection if God “ordered” them to kill every last non Jewish German down to the smallest infant, like any sane human being, actually
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The Germans didn't it would seem.
 
Elora said:
Perhaps the haters of Jehovah God will finally understand the utter wickedness He ordered to be destroyed and why...



When opposing the Bible, people will commonly bring up the subject of God commanding Israel to kill the Amorites (a group of the greater Canaanite people). How do we as Christians defend the Bible when it comes to this topic? The evidence is right beneath our feet... literally!
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So it’s morally okay to kill babies if their parents are bad people?
 
Elora said:
Good point, since most, if not all, were sacrificed by the Amorites and in such a gruesome way...
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Do you see how stupid the claim is that a CIVILIZATION (which requires children to exist and grow to adults) sacrificed all of their children?
 
Elora said:
Added to their other degrading practices was that of child sacrifice. According to Merrill F. Unger: “Excavations in Palestine have uncovered piles of ashes and remains of infant skeletons in cemeteries around heathen altars, pointing to the widespread practice of this cruel abomination.” (Archaeology and the Old Testament, 1964, p. 279) Halley’s Bible Handbook (1964, p. 161) says: “Canaanites worshipped, by immoral indulgence, as a religious rite, in the presence of their gods; and then, by murdering their first-born children, as a sacrifice to these same gods. It seems that, in large measure, the land of Canaan had become a sort of Sodom and Gomorrah on a national scale. . . . Did a civilization of such abominable filth and brutality have any right longer to exist? . . . Archaeologists who dig in the ruins of Canaanite cities wonder that God did not destroy them sooner than he did.”
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000874
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“My cult says the things my cult believes are true”

You’ve already admitted you know your cult is willing to lie to you, so why do you trust them to tell you the truth?
 
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BirdinHand said:
Yes, some ancient cultures believed in sacrifice.

That justified killing everyone, including children that were not sacrificed and not old enough to have any idea what was going on?

Interesting point of view.
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Sounds like the justification for a land grab. The Amorites had nasty habits and good water. Something like that.
 
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