A Chance to Turn?
(Ethnic Cleansing in the Bible #5)
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When God commanded the Israelites to destroy the Canaanites in the Bible, did he give the Canaanites any opportunity to escape from his judgment - to turn from their evil ways, and to stop what they were doing?
- The Bible says that God gave them five hundred years in which to change (Genesis 15:16), but instead they just kept getting worse.
- Not only that, but they had heard about what God had done (in rescuing the Israelites from slavery in Egypt), but most of them still did not turn.
- But some of them – particularly Rahab and her family in Joshua chapter 2 - did turn, and they were not destroyed. So there was a genuine opportunity to turn, if the Canaanites wanted to.
Fifth video in the series 'Ethnic Cleansing in the Bible?' with professor Paul Copan, author of 'Is God a moral monster?'
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