(October 19, 2012 at 11:03 pm)Godschild Wrote: The whole thing is about the river, not the conquering of the land, God did not tell Joshua of the peoples that would be dispossessed, do you see those names in the verses you gave, no, so why are you using it, those verses are repeating what Joshua already knew. God proved to the people He was with Joshua and the people by stopping the flow of the river, a much greater feat. Joshua got the info about the people to be dispossessed from Moses. The verses in the OP have nothing to do with dispossessing these people, why is it so hard for you to see. Joshua was the one who made the statement about dispossessing these people, He was embellishing what God actually said.
Drich was correct in saying that the people did not take all God was giving them. They started off all wrong, they did not take all the lands God was going to give them, they stopped and settled down in the lands west of the Jordan except for a couple of small areas. If they had accepted what God was going to give them they would have conquered all the lands to the Euphrates, virtually eliminating all there enemies to this day. They payed a big price for not doing what God had planned for them.
God actually said "I will give you every place where you set your foot", so how is Joshua bending the facts? God spends one sentence talking about the river, and then three talking about how the Israelites are going to conquer all of the places they go to. God may not have mentioned specific places, but he said "every place where you set your foot", so that is pretty all-encompassing. God also says "No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you." and yet the iron chariots stood against them. Again, I am only referring to the part where god promised that they would conquer any place they went and no one could stand against them. The point of contradiction is that the iron chariots were indeed able to stand against them.
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