(October 26, 2013 at 9:19 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Maybe it wasn't all that extraordinary for him to do stuff like that. He wasn't a very nice guy.
...Said the Bible. Further, killing infants tends to be noteworthy, regardless of the character of who commanded it.
Quote:How about the slaughter of the Canaanites?
Counter-apologists like to talk about that a LOT.
Historical event or fiction?
We bring it up because for Biblical literalists it's a massive problem in your theology if an perfect being is calling for constant near-genocides.
As for their historicity, probably didn't happen. As with much of the OT (esp. Exodus), it's pretty well established archaeologically that it either didn't happen or it didn't happen on anywhere near the scale that is claimed.