So based off of your original post, why wasn't god rewarding the righteous in that society like he claims to do all the time?
In any society of size you have a bell curve of human behavior. So all god has to do is show favor indirectly to people he knows are better humans, thus allowing these people to slowly rise in society and over time alter the bell curve. In this way god could have solved the entire Canaanite issue
In any society of size you have a bell curve of human behavior. So all god has to do is show favor indirectly to people he knows are better humans, thus allowing these people to slowly rise in society and over time alter the bell curve. In this way god could have solved the entire Canaanite issue
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
