Archive for November 12, 2020
Archeologists Discover King David-Era Fort Of The Old Testament’s Geshurites
There is a reference in I Samuel 27 to David raiding towns and villages of the Geshurites, among others, during the year and four months in which he lived among the Philistines to escape the wrath of King Saul. The Old Testament was for centuries the only ancient reference to the Geshurites, but that appears…
Read MoreWHAT WOULD YOU SAY: How Could God Be Good If He Ordered Old Testament Genocide?
They are among the most troubling of Old Testament passages for contemporary minds. I am referring to verses like Deuteronomy 2:34 and I Samuel 15:2-3 in which God ordered every Amalekite and Canaanite man, woman, child, cow, goat, etc. etc. utterly destroyed. Doesn’t sound like justice, does it? Well, maybe there’s more to these verses…
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