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Could you please provide a link or post a reply that deals with the OT justification of genocide?

Why were entire civilizations wiped out and why did God command woman to be raped and children to be killed?

I often here why is God in the OT so different than the one in the NT.
 
holy_wood said:
Could you please provide a link or post a reply that deals with the OT justification of genocide?

Why were entire civilizations wiped out and why did God command woman to be raped and children to be killed?

I often here why is God in the OT so different than the one in the NT.
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How long has the question been bothering you since you were in the faith? I doubt this is the material they cover in RCIA.

If you judge God by using modern ethical standards (for example judging him from a utilitarian perspective), his actions do not seem so palatable.
 
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How long has the question been bothering you since you were in the faith? I doubt this is the material they cover in RCIA.
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It doesn’t really bother me its just a question that I think I should be ablt to answer when my atheist friends challenge me on this.

If God is good why would he command “x”?

Did the people condemned to genocide do something to deserve it?

How about those who were raped?

Or am I spewing anti-Christian propaganda and these things claimed to have been commanded by God in the Bible were actually never commanded?

and yeah, definetley not covered in RCIA.
 
I do know in the book of Jonas (Jonah in modern translations) that Jonas was instructed to go to Ninivea and preach to those people to save them from ruins. God ultimately wiped out this city.
 
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I do know in the book of Jonas (Jonah in modern translations) that Jonas was instructed to go to Ninivea and preach to those people to save them from ruins. God ultimately wiped out this city.
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Can you please provide relevant quotes, please?
 
Jonas 1:2 - Arise and go to Niinive and preach in it:for the wickedness thereof is come up before me.

Jonas 3:2 Arise and go to Ninive the great city and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

Jonas 4:11 And I shall not spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beast?

These quotes were taken from The Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision . The whole book of Jonas, which isn’t long, and is only 4 chapters in size is about the fall of Ninive.
 
Actually. . .(I hate to do this): The book of Jonah deals with Jonah trying to ‘get out of’ preaching Ninevah’s ultimate destruction. . .he does do so, however. The city (a ‘3 days’ journey to walk through) hears Jonah preach and by the end of the FIRST day, everyone has repented. People from the king down fast, wear sackcloth, and pray for forgiveness.

And God spares them.

And Jonah is upset. Here he was preaching, “You’re going to be destroyed in 40 days” and here is God forgiving the people. Jonah thinks it makes him look like a fool. God, however, manages to make it clear to Jonah that the whole incident wasn’t about JONAH and his ‘appearance’ or ‘feelings’, but about obedience to the Lord and what that will accomplish. . . even ‘averting’ certain destruction.

The end of the book of Jonah has Ninevah spared and Jonah now ‘understanding’ the message God gave. . .not just to Ninevah but to Jonah as well, and to all of us who read it.
 
Hello,It is sometimes difficult,but keep in mind the "culture,language etc."of the inspired writers of Sacred Scripture.Which I’m sure you do.Some stories are more than just historical facts.Examples=Gen.1 and Gen2 give differant accounts of the Creation story.Why?In this particular story,What we are to learn is God,our Heavenly Father created everything.How and in what order is His bussiness.The story of Jonas(Jonah)being sent to Nenevah,the capital of Assyria.(about 280 miles north of Babylon).Nenevah was called the robber city because it got its wealth by “robbery”.The Assyrians were hated by Israel and were inslaved,raped,their children sacrificed to Assyrian gods.This is the back drop of this story.The main themes are #1.Gods Mercy.#2A lesson on predjudice.Nenevah was destroyed about 100 yrs after this incident because they forgot the Mercy God showed their grandfathers and reverted back to their pagan gods.History teaches us that civilizations that become completely morally bankrupt do not last.(please pray for our USA).Hope this helps.
 
It wasn’t “genocide”. They often intermarried (like Salmon and Rahab). The Israelites conquered the Canaanites because they had an evil culture (they practiced human sacrifice and temple prostitution, for example). The culture of the Canaanites was corrupt. We could compare the Israelites and Canaanites to the Allies and Nazis.
 
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