Therese

John, John, John, John, John (I put on my patronising sunday school teacher hat)

Don't you see yet? When doctors abort babies they are murdering innocent unborn. When god does it (or 'tells' a war criminal - i.e. Moses - to do it) it is justice. 'Children too young to think for themselves will be judged with there parents' was what I was always taught when I was a christian.

Gotta dash, conveniently, god just sms'ed me with a message to go slaughter my someone I don't like.

oh and if anyone in particular wants their hat back, I'll leave it at the door for them

Justin Z

So God, being omnipotent, couldn't handle this more gently and simply separate the Canaanite children from their demonic possessions and their evil demonic parents? Your logic absolutely baffles me.

~Justin

John A. Broussard

I find it especially interesting that the overwhelming majority of fertilized human ova never reach term.

So guess who the great abortionist is.

Therese

hee hee good call John

babies=defenseless

christians=indefensable

Jack the Bodiless

And, on the various occasions where Caananite virgin girls were spared death and claimed by the soldiers as war booty: of course, they were coincidentally the only ones who weren't possessed by demons.

I see.

John A. Broussard

It's even stronger if you point out that they were given to the soldiers by god.

Of course, they were just going to be treated as "handmaidens."

As I skim through the OT, I'm more and more convinced that Hitler must have read it closely.

Gamut

I wonder if only the attractive women were virgins? I wonder how many attractive non-virgins were kept alive?

I wonder if God super-naturally empowered these soldiers to tell the difference between virgin and non-virgin? It is my understanding that it can be hard to tell even today.

Therese

Well you see Gamut, god wouldn't give them supernatural powers, because that sort of thing is reserved for him. But he did give them a foolproof way of determining virginity.

DT 22:17. And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

They must have sex with them first to know if they are virgins! It's god's way
:rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling:

John A. Broussard

For vivid proof, see:http://www.thebricktestament.com/the...t22_15-17.html

lee_merrill

Hi everyone,

They were too tall to be fearsome on the battlefield! Nine feet or more, and various health problems develop:

Yet the Israelites were like grasshoppers compared to them, and were soundly defeated, the first time they tried them in battle.

Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah.

I certainly believe it's possible:

Luke 1:15 He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.

And thus other spirits could be in even the smallest children, though not by a considered decision, by some response, nonetheless:

Luke 1:44 As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

And again, the other response would be possible.

I don't hold that all babies are innocent, though...

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

But some are:

Psalm 71:6 From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you.

And we do not have the prerogative, to take a life, whether innocent or not, by our own decision, or by our own choice.

Could supernatural physical characteristics imply that they were not just inhabited by spirits, though? That there was some more extensive effect, that involved the whole person?

And if God bears pain?

Those were Midianites, as it turns out, so there could have been a difference here, in how much participation there was in this sort of area. And as far as telling the virgins, we don't know, although there was indeed a supernatural way of determining a similar question, as outlined in Scripture, in Num. 5:27...

Regards,
Lee