Wednesday Bible Study: How to commit genocide

Deuteronomy 7 makes it crystal clear what the Torah is all about, and the nature of Yahweh. He is not a universal God, nor is he a God of mercy and compassion. Furthermore the commandments about not murdering and not coveting they neighbor ' s wife and stuff and so on apply only to the Israelites. God chose them for inscrutable reasons as his instrument of conquest, pillage and mass murder. And here he so commands. This needs little comment: res ipsa loquitur. But I have made a couple of notes.7 “When theLord your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Gir ′gashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per′izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb′usites, seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves,2 and when theLord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.3 As we have seen many times before, God ' s prediction fails. In Joshua we will find that the Israelites cannot completely defeat the Jebusites or Canaanites. In Judges these people are still around: " These are the nations which the LORD left ... the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.Judges 3:1-5" For what it ' s worth.You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.4 For th...
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