Watershed Formation Studies

Chapter 6 - Conquest

In chapter 5. God’s people, formerly powerless slaves, became a kingdom of priests in the desert. Now in chapter 6, Israel finally entered the Promised Land, the land of Canaan. And so begins one of the hardest to understand parts of the Bible In the story of the conquest of Canaan, we read how God seemingly orders wholesale slaughter. What do we do when God acts more like a tribal warlord than the God of unending love? “What are we supposed to do with a Bible like this? What are we supposed to do with a God like this?”
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