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Science article claims the Bible says the Canaanites were wiped out,
and scientists have examined D.N.A. from the era showing that
millions of people exist descended from Canaanites. They want to
prove the Bible wrong- an unscientific motive that creates glee in
the godless atheist left branch of scientists (maybe a majority).
Scientists
often interpret scripture in a way that suits them in order to refute
it. In other words they create a straw man fallacy and beat that.
In Deuteronomy God commands the Chosen people to wipe out the sinful nations- 7 of them, already occupying the land that today is known as Israel. It was made plain that the Jews weren't supposed to fraternize or merge with the Canaanites even a little bit-hence the harsh language. Reason and scripture would indicate there would be lots of survivors. The Jews just couldn’t perfectly fulfill divine commands in the case as elsewhere. In
Incidentally
the 7 Canaanite cities represent 7 sins. Canaanite is said to mean
‘merchants’. I suppose one could compare that to Wall Street. I
will post the passage about the order...
Deuteronomy 7King James Version (KJV)
"7 When
the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither
thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,
the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And
when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou
shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither
shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give
unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For
they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve
other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled
against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5 But
thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and
break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their
graven images with fire.
6 For
thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy
God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The Lord did
not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in
number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But
because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the
oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought
you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know
therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful
God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and
keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 And
repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou
shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12 Wherefore
it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep,
and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the
covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 And
he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also
bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and
thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of
thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee."
It's lucky that scientists don't actually read the Bible, or know that in Isaiah 17:9 it says that the Moabites were driven away leaving because of desolation. Moab was another problem nation adjacent to the lost Canaanite ctiy-nations (7 nations wiped out).
Even if Israel had defeated and destroyed as many Canaanites as they could during the conquest, there would still have been numerous rural Canaanite survivors that would have decided moving away is a good idea. I feel sure that God new the Jews could not accomplish genocide; not even having tracking drones to blast escaping fugitives.
Some scientists should use a little reason when addressing the Bible, and at least have a fair idea what's in it-even if not what it means, and try using a Google search before publishing in prestigious scientific journals.
Isaiah 17:9-11King James Version (KJV)
"9 In
that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an
uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel:
and there shall be desolation.
10 Because
thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been
mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In
the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt
thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in
the day of grief and of desperate sorrow."
