What about God’s commands to destroy nations?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1116 Few passages in Scripture trouble modern readers more than God’s commands to Israel to destroy the Canaanite nations. When God instructs Joshua, “You shall devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them” (Deuteronomy 7:2), we face what appears to be divinely mandated genocide….