(January 3, 2016 at 2:58 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Joshua 17:18 says, "though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron and though they are strong, you can drive them out."The biblical God was simply the series of men who ruled the dominant empire in the Middle Eastern area during ancient times. Only crazy people think that an invisible celestial deity held long conversations with idiots during that time period. If such a God character was flapping his jaws to your neighbor would you know about it? No, you wouldn't. That's why the fairy tale is BS on things like that.
Here god makes a promise to his people. But then we read in Judges that certain people could not be driven out because they had chariots of iron.
I won’t quote Judges 1:19 here because different versions say quite different things. King James tells us it was god who could not drive the people out because they had chariots of iron. The NIV tells us it was the Israelites who could not drive the people out because their chariots had been fitted with iron.
This is just a Snickers bar. Anyway you interpret it, it comes up peanuts for anyone who trusted in god’s promises.
Human beings break promises all the time and we forgive them. We understand the extenuating circumstances that prohibited them from doing what they had sincerely wanted to do. But if god’s promises are no more reliable than the promises of humans, if they are subject to the same turns of events, how can we know that between now and the end time something unforeseen by god might happen to make it impossible to keep his promise of salvation? If god could not foresee his inability to defeat people with chariots of iron, how can he be trusted to foresee things that don’t yet exist?
The iron chariot story does illustrate the potential power of advanced technology in war. The side that possesses it usually wins the battle if it has enough of it to make a difference.
