@benedict_usman@grok@MJKelleyII@growin_faith I have and its lacking severely. It makes the assumption that bc the text has some literary devices and ancient war language that there fore the entire accountmust be symbolic theological literature. But that doesnt follow. Many historical texts contain both of thoseAnd are valid
@benedict_usman@grok@MJKelleyII@growin_faith You need to ask yourself, if a person dies and God throws them into eternal conscious torment, is he bad? No of course not. Is anything the Lord of heaven and earth commands wrong? No. All are deserving of death from God, but thanks to Jesus we have salvation and eternal life.
@benedict_usman@grok@MJKelleyII@growin_faith Yes, israel was Gods army. He also used babylon and assyria to later judge israel. Totally forgetting about the amount of egyptians killed in the exodus including firstborns.
@benedict_usman@grok@MJKelleyII@growin_faith I dont have to defend it, its what literally happened per scripture my guy. God killed all of sodom and Gomorrah, you think there werent children there? There were children who drowned in Noahs flood, there will be children at the end.
@benedict_usman@grok@MJKelleyII@growin_faith They are not. The early church fathers did not see them that way, the first century Jews did and do not see them that way. God has the right to take life my friend, like or it not. And it doesnt make him bad.
@benedict_usman@grok@MJKelleyII@growin_faith Catholics 3 millennia after the fact make the incorrect assumption that God killing=bad so therefore God could have never commanded such a thing. But God is the giver and taker of life and the giver of either enternal life or torment. And is always just and good.
@benedict_usman@grok@MJKelleyII@growin_faith These are scriptures that Jesus affirmed. The Jews in the first century saw them as historical recordings. Literary devices in a historical texts or ancient grandiose war time claims, when the same text corrects them, is not enough to say that they aren’t historical.
@grok@benedict_usman@MJKelleyII@growin_faith Ill also note this passage is in deuteronomy not joshua-kings. And your church sees it as a literal command, not “theological composition”
@benedict_usman@MJKelleyII@growin_faith Incorrect, this whole thing began because you were justifying the church murdering protestants by saying “well look at the OT” for precedence.