9. Romans 13:9). Note that after the Canaanite city Sodom was destroyed, … Butt, Kyle (2009), “Is God Immoral for Killing Innocent Children?” Apologetics Press, http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=11&article=260. They were Nephilim. “Is God Immoral for Killing Innocent Children?”, http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=1201, http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=11&article=260, http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=2810. Canaanite religion was polytheistic, and in some cases monolatristic. Covenant. You shall not take vengeance nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself…. The children of Canaan were not guilty of their parents’ sins (cf. Unger, Merrill F. (1988), “Canaan,” The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary (Electronic Database: Biblesoft). 20:16–18 we learn about just how bad things were, and why God had to take such drastic steps: The people of Canaan were wicked in Abraham’s day, but God showed mercy. . The Canaanites play an important role in the story of the Israelites' conquest of their "Promised Land," especially in the Book of Joshua, but the ancient Jewish scriptures contain almost no substantive information about them. The Israelites then conquered Gezer, Eglon, Hebron, Debir, and Hazor (10:33-39; 11:1-1). Proverbs 13:24). Jamieson, Robert, et al. In the Old Testament, God commanded the Israelites to completely wipe out the Canaanites living in a certain region (Deut. “Love,” after all, “is the fulfillment of the law” (Romans 13:10; cf. Canaan lived a cursed life because he was conceived by incest. Immediately following a reminder to the Christians in Rome that the Old Testament was “written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope,” the apostle Paul referred to God as “the God of patience” (Romans 15:4-5). “Genocide” (2012), Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genocide. (It seems as though God delayed flooding Earth for 120 years as His Spirit’s message of righteousness was preached to a wicked world—Genesis 6:3; 2 Peter 2:5.) Still, many find God’s commands to conquer and destroy the Canaanite nation states problematic. The Canaanites are the villains of the story because they are living on land promised to the Israelites by Yahweh. Atheist Richard Dawkins considers the war over Canaan to be one of the most morally atrocious aspects of the OT. The one cited most often is the destruction of the Canaanites. Paine, Thomas (1807), “Essay on Dream,” http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/paine/dream.htm. On the contrary, the Canaanite nations were horribly depraved. iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants. Israel and their One God, 8. Sometimes the Amorites were named in the same way. enough. The Canaanites: Abraham was Promised the Country of, of Inheritance. (1997), Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Bible Commentary (Electronic Database: Biblesoft). How could a loving God instruct one group of people to kill and conquer another group? In fact, both the Canaanites and the Israelites would experience (partial) removal from the land because of their wickedness. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy” (7:2), “do not leave alive anything that breathes” (20:16). The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself (Leviticus 19:17-18,33-34; cf. Though the enemies of the God of the Bible are frequently heard criticizing Israel’s conquest of Canaan, the fact is, such a conquest was in complete harmony with God’s perfectly loving, holy, and righteous nature. After crossing the Jordan River, we learn in the book of Joshua that the Israelites “utterly destroyed all that was in the city [of Jericho], both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword…. Jesus Believed in the Old Testament, As Paul Copan explains in his book Is God a Moral Monster?, “Joshua used the rhetorical bravado language of his day, asserting that all the land was captured, all the kings defeated, and all the Canaanites destroyed.” The point of all this rhetoric was to assert God’s total supremacy over the Canaanite idols. In the Old Testament, God commanded the Israelites to completely wipe out the Canaanites living in a certain region (Deut. How could a supremely good (Mark 10:18), all-loving (1 John 4:8), perfectly holy God (Leviticus 11:44-45) order the Israelites to slay with swords myriads of human beings, letting “none remain” in Canaan? In his book The God Delusion, he writes,. What had the Canaanites done that warranted national judgment? here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete." For whoever commits In the days of Abraham, God ultimately decided to spare the iniquitous city of Sodom, not if 50 righteous people were found living therein, but only 10 righteous individuals. Two centuries later, Richard Dawkins (arguably the most famous atheist in the world today), published his book The God Delusion, which soon became a New York Times bestseller. Then in the fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete (finished).” AMPC And in the fourth generation they [your descendants] shall come back here [to Canaan] again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full and complete. [NOTE: For a superb, extensive discussion on the relationship between (1) the goodness of God, (2) the contradictory, hideousness of atheism, and (3) God bringing about the death of various infants throughout history, see Kyle Butt’s article “Is God Immoral for Killing Innocent Children?” (2009).]. How could a supremely good (Mark 10:18), all-loving (1 John 4:8), perfectly holy God (Leviticus 11:44-45) order the Israelites to slay with swords myriads of human beings, letting “none remain” in 5. 5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land; but because of the wickedness … The Canaanites were too Wicked to Occupy Canaan any Longer. And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. Though many parts of Dawkins’s charge have been answered by thoughtful Christians, certain passages in the Old Testament even give believers pause. Though in Noah’s day, “the wickedness of man was great in the earth” and “ever intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5), “the Divine longsuffering waited” (1 Peter 3:20). 10. Miller, Dave (2009), “Did God Order the Killing of Babies?” Apologetics Press, http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=2810. But that displacement came because of their ferocious, habitual, unrepentant wickedness. any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be cut (Gen. 9:18) And apparently Canaan had a definitely corrupt trait, perhaps of a lustful nature, that was manifested by some abuse in connection with his grandfather Noah. He would wait until the Israelites had been in Egypt for hundreds of years, because at the time that God spoke with Abraham “the iniquity of the Amorites” was “not yet complete” (Genesis 15:16). They attempted to cast spells upon people and call up the dead (Deuteronomy 18:10-11). The wickedness of the Canaanite nations which occupied the ‘Promised Land’ to which the Lord brought the Hebrew people out of Egypt, had been wicked for centuries. also “Genocide,” 2012). Is such a planned, systematic extermination of nations not equivalent to the murderous actions of the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s, as atheists and other critics of Christianity would have us believe? commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or Israel and their One God, Matthew 18:3-5; see Butt, 2003). They practiced “abominable customs” (Leviticus 18:30) and did “detestable things” (Deuteronomy 18:9, NASB). Their “cultic practice was barbarous and thoroughly licentious” (Unger, 1954, p. 175). 4 When the Lord your God thrusts them out before you, do not say to yourself, “It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to occupy this land”; it is rather because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you. defiled, lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it The Canaanites had the witness of Abraham and his altars, and they recognized the power of the patriarch’s god, but they did not forsake their own imitations. The Canaanites are to be destroyed “that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God” (Deut. The… Genesis 15:16 and Leviticus 18:25). Children who have parents who are evil must naturally suffer innocently while on Earth (e.g., Numbers 14:33)” (Miller, 2009). The Scroll of Isaiah was found in Perfect Condition, 10. Although the Amorites were already a sinful people in Abraham’s day, God delayed in giving the descendants of the patriarch the Promised Land. If so, are “divine genocide” claims more of a aBstraCt: Skeptics challenge God’s fairness for ordering Israel to destroy the Canaanites, but a close look at the horror of Canaanite sinfulness, the corruptive and seductive power of their sin As shown below, seeing the nakedness of a man is a common Hebrew expression for having sex with his wife (Lev. the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, 27, 2017 , 12:00 PM. Deuteronomy 9:4–5NRSV CSB NIV ESV NET LEB. Canaanites: To be Expelled from the Land. And I do mean wickedness. 7. They descended from Canaan, the grandson of Noah, through Ham. And I do mean wickedness. son Canaan as a result (Genesis 9:25). The object of warfare moves from the Canaanites, who are the object of God’s wrath for their sin, to the spiritual powers and principalities, and then finally to the utter destruction of all evil, human and spiritual. Deuteronomy 9:4–5NRSV CSB NIV ESV NET LEB. Yes, God is longsuffering, but His longsuffering is not an “eternal” suffering. Notice the spies' timidity even at the beginning of their report, and they become … before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and The first great challenge for the successor of Moses was the wicked Canaanite city of Jericho. Joshua’s conquest took place only after the sin of the Canaanites had “reached its full measure” ( Genesis 15:16 ). Just one further passage will suffice here. The point is not that the Canaanite people were the most wicked people on earth anymore than one serial killer is more wicked than any other. The war against the Canaanites was simply an earlier phase of the battle that comes to its climax on the cross and its completion at the final judgment. Our enemies are the demonic forces that hold the world in captivity to sin, and our weapons are now … Indeed, God waited. Just five chapters after commanding the individual Israelite to “not take vengeance,” but “love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18), God twice said that murderers would receive the death penalty (Leviticus 24:21,17). 2. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. Noah's kids, Japheth, Shem, and Ham lived for about a century in the wicked pre-flood world. What about the Canaanite Genocide? Albright, 1940, p. 214). "Then in the fourth generation they will return One of the most oft-quoted phrases from this work comes from page 31, where Dawkins called God, a “racist, infanticidal, genocidal…capriciously malevolent bully” (2006). “Holocaust” (2011), Encyclopedia.com, http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Holocaust.aspx#1. Matthew 22:36-40). The Canaanites were a group of people who lived in ancient Canaan along the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea known today as Israel. Some 3,400 years before the Holocaust, the God of the Bible commanded the Israelites to “destroy all the inhabitants of the land” of Canaan (Joshua 9:24). Nor were the Israelites commanded to pursue and kill the Canaanite nations if they fled from Israel’s Promised Land. Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them…. Did God quickly decide to cast them out of the land? 15:16). so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were Origin of the Races, The fact is, critics of the God of the Bible are fond of repeating the allegation that, because of His instruction to the Israelites to kill millions of people in their conquest of Canaan, the God of the Bible has (allegedly) shown Himself to be an unruly, shameful, offensive, genocidal, “evil monster” (Dawkins, p. 248; cf. It ended for Sodom and Gomorrah in the days of Abraham. But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to … It was genocide in the sense that it was a planned, systematic, limited extermination of a number of nation states from a relatively small area in the Middle East (cf. Canaanites: Wickedness of. America’s most well-known critic of Christianity in the late 1700s and early 1800s, Thomas Paine (one of only a handful of America’s Founding Fathers who did not claim to be a Christian), called the God of the Old Testament “the Mars of the Jews, the fighting God of Israel,” Who was “boisterous, contemptible, and vulgar” (Paine, 1807). The Amorites and other Canaanites were exceedingly wicked (for a list of some of their sins, see Leviticus 18 ). Destruction of the Canaanites. The Old Testament: His patience with impenitent sinners eventually ends. They descended from Canaan, the grandson of Noah, through Ham. However, Clay Jones's essay documents and reinforces my point that this was indeed a wicked people. The Canaanite nations that had inhabited the land for many centuries were indeed paragons of wickedness, not only pagan idolaters, but practitioners of every form of sexual debauchery, as well as extreme cruelties, even offering their own children in fiery sacrifices to their demonic nature gods (Deuteronomy 12:31). Merciful policemen, who are constantly saving the lives of the innocent, have the authority (both from God and the government—Romans 13:1-4) to kill a wicked person who is murdering others. They also “utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai” (Joshua 8:26), killing 12,000 men and women and hanging their king (8:25,29). He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded” (Joshua 11:12). In Makkedah and Libnah, the Israelites “let none remain” (Joshua 10:28,30). Moses’ instructions to the Israelites as they were about to move into Canaan included this: Because of such things, biologist and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins describes God as “a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser . According to one search engine, this quote (in part or in whole) is found on-line approximately one million times. (Leviticus 18:25-30). The Jews were starved, gassed, and experimented on like animals. Unlike the foolish, impulsive, quick-tempered reactions of many men (Proverbs 14:29), the Lord is “slow to anger and great in mercy” (Psalm 145:8). They struck Lachish “and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword” (10:32). ( Gen. 9:18) And apparently Canaan had a definitely corrupt trait, perhaps of a lustful nature, that was manifested by some abuse in connection with his grandfather Noah. Implicit in the righteous judgment was the divine intention to protect and benefit the world. Canaanite religion refers to the group of ancient Semitic religions practiced by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age through the first centuries of the Common Era. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 6. 3. [T]hey burned the city and all that was in it with fire” (Joshua 6:21,24). The faithful Jew was expected, as are Christians, to “not resist an evil person” (Matthew 5:39) but rather “go the extra mile” (Matthew 5:41) and “turn the other cheek” (Matthew 5:39). The Wickedness of Canaan, 7. Joshua enslaved them because of their wickedness (Joshua 9:23) as did Solomon (I Kings 9:20-21). The Canaanite disdained the scouts that Moses sent out and they felt invincible with all their state of the art weaponry and their army of human flesh eating GIANTS. The Wickedness of Canaan, Loving-kindness and corporal or capital punishment are not antithetical. Man's Long Lifespan Before the Flood, Most sane people, including Christians and many atheists (e.g., Antony Flew, Wallace Matson), have interpreted the Nazis’ actions for what they were—cruel, callous, and nefarious. Unger, Merrill F. (1954), Archaeology and the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan). vomited out the nations that were before you. Reading them brings to mind horrible terms like [NOTE: “The Amorites were so numerous and powerful a tribe in Canaan that they are sometimes named for the whole of the ancient inhabitants, as they are here” (Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown, 1997).] 20.18). The Canaanites, as a whole culture, committed sins of idolatry, holy temple prostitution, adultery, homosexuality, incest, murder, bestiality, gang rape, and child sacrifice (see The Nature of the Canaanites’ Sin excursus at the end of the article). Destruction of the Canaanites. God did not send the Israelites into the land of Canaan to destroy a number of righteous nations. So how could God justly take the lives of children, any children, “who have no knowledge of good and evil” (Deuteronomy 1:39)? Isaiah saw God on his Throne, 9. The Canaanites: Abraham: Called to Dwell Amongst. Albright, William F. (1940), From the Stone Age to Christianity (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins). seven nations greater and stronger than you," (Deuteronomy 7:1) Similar to how merciful parents, principals, policemen, and judges can justly administer punishment to rule-breakers and evildoers, so too can the all-knowing, all-loving Creator of the Universe. In addition, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime slaughtered another three million Poles, Soviets, gypsies, and people with disabilities (see “Holocaust,” 2011 for more information). Just judges have the authority to sentence a depraved child rapist to death. Loving parents and principals have administered corporal punishment appropriately to children for years (cf. 6. Did He respond to the peoples’ wickedness like an impulsive, reckless mad-man? By Lizzie Wade Jul. If you think the Canaanites deserved to die because of their own wickedness, Dawkins will zealously compare you to acting like the Taliban. But, it was not a war against a particular race (from the Greek genos) or ethnic group. “Genocide,” 2000; cf. The evidence for profound moral corruption was abundant. . A common attack today on Christianity has to do with the character of the God of the Old Testament{1}. In Deut. ), religious prostitution and sexual cults. Like these: Strong words. And it eventually ended for the inhabitants of Canaan, whom God justly destroyed. 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