Originally posted by pear
Hi MrGordon
Pear, you need to check what the Scriptures really teach. The Canaanite's although living a debauched life that left archeologists wondering why God waited so long before stepping in, had their opportunity to repent and change. Rahab was one example as were the Gibeonites.
There is no archeologist that has this view. I have seen you posting this sort of rubbish before.
The fact is that you support the genocide that the Jews committed. Man, women, BABIES, pregnant women, animals etc. According to you babies were living a debauched life? Why don't you try and grow up just a little bit.
Have you any idea of actual history Mr Gordon? The pact between god and man when it came to warfare is not a Jewish thing. It was copied by the Jews from the people they lived with.
Since you know about archeology, tell us just one example which backs the exodus rubbish, the Jericho nonsense etc etc.
Pear
There is no archeologist that has this view.
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Here you go Pear.
The Bible Handbook, by Henry H. Halley, notes that at Megiddo, archaeologists found the ruins of a temple of Ashtoreth, goddess-wife of Baal. He writes: “Just a few steps from this temple was a cemetery, where many jars were found, containing remains of infants who had been sacrificed in this temple . . . Prophets of Baal and Ashtoreth were official murderers of little children.” “Another horrible practice was [what] they called ‘foundation sacrifices.’ When a house was to be built, a child would be sacrificed, and its body built into the wall.”
Halley comments: “The worship of Baal, Ashtoreth, and other Canaanite gods consisted in the most extravagant orgies; their temples were centers of vice. . . . Canaanites worshiped, by immoral indulgence, . . . 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.”
Take it up with Henry Halley. It was his comment. Of course Jehovah's sense of justice is far better refined than both yours and mine.
