re: Stunning Admission By Renowned Atheist; Decline of Christianity is Hurting Society

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I didn't know you were omniscient. shite you should have told me, would have saved me a lot of time disagreeing with you.

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You don’t have to be omniscient to know this. You just need to read your Bible and try to understand why God has interacted with humanity the way He has in the past and what age we live in now.

God doesn’t act arbitrarily. All that happens is part of His larger redemptive plan. The reason why certain tribes were told to be wiped out is so that God could cleanse the promised land for His chosen people. It had a second purpose of strengthening faith in God by showing His people that He would make them victorious as long as they remained faithful, and that also resulted in the judgment of God’s enemies.

Those events happened in history for a specific purpose and there is no need for that any longer because the land was a means that God used to both physically separate His chosen people from the other nations as well as a physical sign that God keeps His promises. The physical nation of Israel ultimately saw its fulfillment in the spiritual nation of the Church and the embodiment of Jesus Christ, Himself, who obeyed as the people were supposed to obey.

So yes, I know that God wouldn’t command such things any longer because there is no reason for God to do so given that His revelation is complete and His promises are either already fulfilled or are being fulfilled in the commission that He’s given the Church.