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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...

radicals, in the name of their religion and inspired by Osama bin Laden, destroyed thousands of innocent civilians. All civilized people abhor what happened on September 11; are we equally to abhor what happened in Jericho more than three millennia ago? Moreover, in such places as Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo, we have seen the indiscriminate slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians of a single ethnic group. We are now familiar with the terms genocide and ethnic cleansing—words that were not a part
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