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@sonship saidThe Hebrew scriptures are your only source for your accusations against the Midianites?
There is this book you see. Its called The Bible.
@sonship saidThe Hebrew scriptures are your only source for your accusations against the Midianites?
There is this book you see. Its called The Bible.
So you only have what the Hebrews themselves wrote about their enemies, right?
@sonship saidPointing out - accurately and truthfully - that you only have what the Hebrews themselves wrote about their enemies [before killing them all and moving onto their land] is, to your way of thinking, a "conspiracy theory"?
Conspiracy theories as to why it appears this way are not plausible to me.
@sonship saidThis is not relevant to the Hebrew claim that their god told them to kill the Midianites and take their land.
Its candor, its inclusion of embarressing details, its record of God being harsh with the theocratic nation itself many times, are not consistent with an Egyptian like boasting.
@sonship saidIts candor, its inclusion of embarressing details, its record of God being harsh with the theocratic nation itself many times, are not consistent with an Egyptian like boasting.
Its candor, its inclusion of embarressing details, its record of God being harsh with the theocratic nation itself many times, are not consistent with an Egyptian like boasting.
Just reading Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel alone as major prophets should demonstrate that more times then not the chosen people of God were under His discipline for their misrepresenting Him to the world than not.
@sonship saidNone of this is relevant to the veracity of the Hebrew claim that their god told them to kill all the Midianites and take their land.
Folks Genesis explains that God told Abraham that He would not bring Israel into the good land of Canaan YET. That is becuause the people there had not gotten BAD ENOUGH yet.
GOd tells Abraham in Genesis 15 that another 400 years has to pass before God would execute judgment upon the inhabitants of Canaan.
The 400 years pass and He adds another 40 years ...[text shortened]... scend to such a level. God knows better and left a record.
"You all CAN actually sink that low."
@fmf said... It was a good enough source for accusations against the Hebrews, was it not?
The Hebrew scriptures are your only source for your accusations against the Midianites?
The post that was quoted here has been removedIs there any evidence whatsoever (obviously with the exception of the biblical account) that any of this actually happened? Given the numbers claimed that scale of warfare would leave destruction layers in multiple cities in a very short space of time. Is there any of this?
@philokalia saidWhat accusations against the Hebrews?
... It was a good enough source for accusations against the Hebrews, was it not?