(July 7, 2014 at 6:09 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote:(July 7, 2014 at 11:23 am)SteveII Wrote: I don't think that the position that God causes an evil event to happen is defensible logically nor an accurate interpretation of the Bible.
So, gawd ordering the genocide (yes, genocide) of the Canaanites for nothing more heinous than presuming to live in the "promised land" before Moses and the rest showed up isn't an "evil event?"
If you let him off for being inscrutable, you must also let Hitler off. After all, he was claiming to be doing gawds work. Who are you to say he wasn't?!?
Mind you, that's just one example.
You are wrong in your reasons God gave to wipe out the Canaanites. It was because their culture had risen to the wickedness to judge them (child sacrifice, temple prostitutes etc. etc.). In fact, God mentioned earlier to Abraham in Genesis 15:
“Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. . . . And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites [one of the Canaanite clans] is not yet complete” (Gen. 15. 13, 16).
That shows that at some point the Canaanites' sins had not risen to the level to receive God's judgement. That tells a little different story that your "nothing more heinous than presuming to live in the "promised land" before Moses and the rest showed up".
