Did God Command Israel to “Show Them No Mercy?”I have visited this issue before, but it still intrigues me. IF God commanded Joshua and Israel to slaughter Canaanite children, women, elderly, animals and “show them no mercy,” how can we say with any degree of assurance that God did not command that later? How do we know God didn’t command him to do that? Surely he thought he was obeying God and no doubt used the Old Testament texts of terror to justify it. I interpret the Old Testament as well as the New Testament in terms of Jesus Christ as the perfect revelation of God’s character and will.
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