Bible Expert (likely Wesley Huff or a co-host closely involved with Biblical scholarship)

What do you make of that text? So I don't think it's genocide in the way that we would understand genocide, specifically because the Canaanites continue to pop up. So if they did actually wipe everybody out, they did a poor job at it. There's a few things going on in the text. God promises Abraham Canaan.

What do you make of that text? So I don't think it's genocide in the way that we would understand genocide, specifically because the Canaanites continue to pop up. So if they did actually wipe everybody out, they did a poor job at it. There's a few things going on in the text. God promises Abraham Canaan.

What do you make of that text? So I don't think it's genocide in the way that we would understand genocide, specifically because the Canaanites continue to pop up. So if they did actually wipe everybody out, they did a poor job at it. There's a few things going on in the text. God promises Abraham Canaan.

And says, I'm going to give it to your descendants, but I'm going to wait 400 years because the sins of the Amorites have not come to their full fruition. So God gives them 400 years to repent. And by the time you get to Joshua, they're not repenting if anything, they've gotten worse. They're doing things like child sacrifice to these agricultural gods.

And says, I'm going to give it to your descendants, but I'm going to wait 400 years because the sins of the Amorites have not come to their full fruition. So God gives them 400 years to repent. And by the time you get to Joshua, they're not repenting if anything, they've gotten worse. They're doing things like child sacrifice to these agricultural gods.

And says, I'm going to give it to your descendants, but I'm going to wait 400 years because the sins of the Amorites have not come to their full fruition. So God gives them 400 years to repent. And by the time you get to Joshua, they're not repenting if anything, they've gotten worse. They're doing things like child sacrifice to these agricultural gods.

And so then you have something unique in the Old Testament where before the monarchy, before Saul and David, the kings, it's a theocracy. God is the ruler of the people, and he uses Israel to enact his judgment. So he enacts judgment on these terrible people in order to—so in the same vein, a lot of people—

And so then you have something unique in the Old Testament where before the monarchy, before Saul and David, the kings, it's a theocracy. God is the ruler of the people, and he uses Israel to enact his judgment. So he enacts judgment on these terrible people in order to—so in the same vein, a lot of people—

And so then you have something unique in the Old Testament where before the monarchy, before Saul and David, the kings, it's a theocracy. God is the ruler of the people, and he uses Israel to enact his judgment. So he enacts judgment on these terrible people in order to—so in the same vein, a lot of people—

who accuse, who say to me, like, look, there's genocide in the Old Testament, also say things to me like, well, why doesn't God do anything about the evil in the world? I would actually argue this is an example of God doing something about the evil in the world, and that he's using his nation, Israel, to accomplish something.

who accuse, who say to me, like, look, there's genocide in the Old Testament, also say things to me like, well, why doesn't God do anything about the evil in the world? I would actually argue this is an example of God doing something about the evil in the world, and that he's using his nation, Israel, to accomplish something.

who accuse, who say to me, like, look, there's genocide in the Old Testament, also say things to me like, well, why doesn't God do anything about the evil in the world? I would actually argue this is an example of God doing something about the evil in the world, and that he's using his nation, Israel, to accomplish something.

the wiping out of these people so he sees that as justice for what they've done wrong these are bad people right um and and so i think there is there's an aspect of god is saying go and wipe them out i'm done with their evil at the same time uh There's a friend of the organization I work with, a guy named Paul Copan. He's in Florida. I think he teaches at Florida State University.

the wiping out of these people so he sees that as justice for what they've done wrong these are bad people right um and and so i think there is there's an aspect of god is saying go and wipe them out i'm done with their evil at the same time uh There's a friend of the organization I work with, a guy named Paul Copan. He's in Florida. I think he teaches at Florida State University.

the wiping out of these people so he sees that as justice for what they've done wrong these are bad people right um and and so i think there is there's an aspect of god is saying go and wipe them out i'm done with their evil at the same time uh There's a friend of the organization I work with, a guy named Paul Copan. He's in Florida. I think he teaches at Florida State University.

He wrote a book called Is God a Moral Monster? And then he wrote another book called Did God Command Genocide in the Old Testament? And he goes through some interesting parallels in other ancient Near Eastern. So, like, Canaanite, Hittite, Egyptian...

He wrote a book called Is God a Moral Monster? And then he wrote another book called Did God Command Genocide in the Old Testament? And he goes through some interesting parallels in other ancient Near Eastern. So, like, Canaanite, Hittite, Egyptian...

He wrote a book called Is God a Moral Monster? And then he wrote another book called Did God Command Genocide in the Old Testament? And he goes through some interesting parallels in other ancient Near Eastern. So, like, Canaanite, Hittite, Egyptian...

war texts where it uses similar language in terms of like wipe them out leave none left kill the women the children the goats that kind of stuff and Copen argues that there's an aspect of cultural wartime hyperbole that exists in the same way that I would say like the Toronto Maple Leafs

war texts where it uses similar language in terms of like wipe them out leave none left kill the women the children the goats that kind of stuff and Copen argues that there's an aspect of cultural wartime hyperbole that exists in the same way that I would say like the Toronto Maple Leafs