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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
Since we know that God is love and "thou shall not kill", wish we also knew the entire story so that not to put our own meaning to certain pieces of the Bible. As we don't know the reasons why God judged those people in that way, we can only guess that their sins and corruption were so bad that wiping off those nations was the only right judgment. But it's only a guess. I don't know the entire story and I can't know God's reasons.
One more article about it:
http://www.gotquestions.org/God-killing.html |
The article is just a bunch of rationalizations, trying to explain the impossible, and trying to make killing to take the land "given" to them a light matter.
So Deut 20:16 doesn't say "kill" everything that breatheth, it just says, "thou shalt save alive nothing." Which is still killing, murdering, to take someone else's land, plain and simple.