(January 6, 2019 at 2:05 am)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote:(January 6, 2019 at 1:06 am)GGG Wrote: Deuteronomy Chapter 3 (4). https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/deut/3?lang=eng
Even if it was just 1 city (it was 60) your god just kills women and children - whole city. Btw i didnt hear your reply about god killing all egyptian children (there is many children from whole country) without even help of his goons like Joshua or Moses.
I don't see the problem you're having. Joshua didn't start the battle. Him and his men finished it though. In Numbers, the previous book, it talks about what happened that lead to it.
Num 21:33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
If you read that chapter, all Joshua and his people wanted to do was to pass the land. Nothing more.
Num 21:23 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
If you are traveling somewhere and make it clear you are just trying to make your way to the border so you can get to your destination, no harm intended, but someone attacks you, how would you react?
Few scholars believe that these texts contain literal history:
Quote:Composition
Balaam and the Angel (illustration from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle)
The majority of modern biblical scholars believe that the Torah (the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) reached its present form in the post-Exilic period (i.e., after c.520 BCE), based on pre-existing written and oral traditions and "contemporary geographical and demographic details but even more importantly from contemporary political realities".[7][8] The five books are often described as being drawn from four "sources" - schools of writers rather than individuals - the Yahwist and the Elohist (frequently treated as a single source), the Priestly source and the Deuteronomist.[9] There is ongoing dispute over the origins of the non-Priestly source(s), but it is generally agreed that the Priestly source is post-exilic.[10]
Genesis is made up of Priestly and non-Priestly material.[10]
Exodus is an anthology drawn from nearly all periods of Israel's history.[11]
Leviticus is entirely Priestly and dates from the exilic/post-exilic period.[12]
Numbers is a Priestly redaction (i.e., editing) of a non-Priestly original.[2]
Deuteronomy, now the last book of the Torah, began as the set of religious laws (these make up the bulk of the book), was extended in the early part of the 6th century BCE to serve as the introduction to the Deuteronomistic history (the books from Joshua to Kings), and later still was detached from that history, extended and edited again, and attached to the Torah.[13]
Wikipedia -- Book of Numbers: Composition
Do you also believe that Joshua stopped the rotation of the Earth? Caused the Sun to reverse its daily course through the Sky??
