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Christians are often shocked to read that Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, commanded the total destruction—all men, women, and children—of the ethnic group known as the Canaanites. This seems to contradict Jesus’ command in the New Testament to love your enemies and do good to all people. How can Yahweh be the same God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? What does genocide in the Bible have...

Amid the hopes, dreams, and lives shattered when the twin spires of America’s cathedral of capitalism crashed to the ground on September 11, 2001, was evangelicalism’s easy accommodation with Old Testament genocidal “texts of terror.”1 This was played out on full camera when Jerry Falwell, making an appearance on The 700 Club, reflexively attributed the deadliest terrorist attack on Americans in history to God’s judgment. He blamed “pagans and abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians
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