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Originally Posted by shazeep
...disregarding that we are not in that dispensation, and that those stories are not being retold in approval, but to illuminate some raw truth. In each of those stories of rape or incest are central points that seem to be being missed? I mean, we have stories about people under siege eating their own children, too--doesn't mean God recommends it.
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Good points you make! The world was a rough place back then and life was violent at times, just as it still is in some places. Even if Israel had marched into the promised land unopposed they probably would have had to eventually fight to defend themselves and their territory. Of course the people that they did not eliminate were always a problem for them.
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