I realize you a playing the devils advocate here. And I agree with you that the level of Biblical literacy in today's culture is totally pathetic. Again I'll reiterate. That was the reason progressives removed it from our government run schools. To make the culture Biblically illiterate. We wouldn't be having this discussion if it were not so. Everyone would know the arguments being made via the militant atheist mindset are fallacious.
I put out a secondary reason on why God said to kill everything, including infants. Because the demons and the demonic activity was inside of those infants, and because the law was weak. Powerless to alter those infants destiny and what was in those infants was able to alter the destiny of ancient Israel, (and did.) The only way for them, at that time, at that juncture in history to rid the land of the demons was to kill everything including the children that they inhabited. Now I am sorry people don't understand spiritual things. But that is just one of many facets relating to the situation. Once knowledge increased which would take centuries. Once the devil became bound in certain area's. Once the power of the Gospel become known and used. Then the situations like that can be dealt with differently. But not back then.
I'll tell you a recent story to exhibit the point. My wife ran into her hairdresser. A young normal woman. She blurted out her story to my wife about what just happened to her. My wife is a believer and people are just drawn to her. She said she began having horrible physical problems. Things that are symptoms of brain tumors and other horrors. It put her out of work. She inadvertently visited a Pentecostal church. Went up for prayer and when they began to pray she completely lost control of herself. Attacked four grown men. Cursing and voices coming out of her. They cast a demon out of her. She says she literally rose 3 feet out of her chair and was screaming uncontrollably. Then it was over. She told the pastor she was going to get an MRI the next day. The pastor said fine go ahead. But they won't find anything. The physical problems you had were from a demon living inside of you, not a medical issue. She got the MRI, they couldn't find anything and she is complete healed. All the problems are gone.
Now I tell you this story to tell you this. She said she never knew there was a foreign entity living inside of her. There was never any indication of it until l she started having all these physical problems. There was never a time that she was aware some evil thing came to live inside her. I asked if she was ever involved in the occult. My wife didn't have time to ask but she said she saw her with her mom in the store and her mom had a traditional headdress on. Most likely some kind of eastern orthodox tradition of one of the Baltic or Mid East states. I said well that can do it. You see what happened to this girl was because her culture opened the door into her life of for a literal demon and demonic activity that would have destroyed her had she not happened to run into someone who, in Christ, could do something about it. And her culture is dominated by a Christian sect. ( As far as we know,) Imagine what the infants in the movie clip are like. Growing up eating human flesh from mass ritual sacrifices where they kill, roast and eat 20,000 people at a time. (That's the lovely Aztecs.) Where literally every single person has actual devils living inside of them. Where like John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit in his mothers womb these children are filled with demons from their mothers womb? Shoot the demons are right there growing with them in the womb. they inhabit the same body.
And God had to navigate the madness of that world to slowly over centuries bring in light to eventually heal the nations involved in such insanity??????? So just to be able to use one people to bring that light into the world he had to exterminate, (those who deserved it anyway.) So that he could do what he did. There not being another way. And there is way more to this story of why.
Yes, i do think your views and this post is spot intelligent on and reasonable. How i wish more christians in this thread had the rationalism you have. Your post is exactly I am talking about. It is people like you who can save others by bringing a true, informative, and rational defense in regards to our faith that can save many from walking away due to the horrific interpretations that can happen if one isn't informed of the actual reasoning behind these events in the OT.
It blows my mind how some replies here are legitamizing the slaughtering of babies all because "god said so". Because that just means that any form of barbarianism is acceptable all because of authority. So what about rape and other forms of brutal/barbaric murders, all of these just stop being evil because God is now commanding it? It not only makes 0 sense but it's harshly disturbing to read such views.
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