Show them no mercy
Subtitle: four views on God and Canaanite genocide
By: C.S. Cowles ... [et al.].
Series: Counterpoints; Counterpoints (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Description: This is a Counterpoints book that discusses various contemporary views held by evangelicals on God's command to the Israelites to destroy utterly the Canaanites and how each view sees the relationship between this God of the Israelites and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has commanded us to love our enemies. This book discusses various contemporary evangelical views of genocide in the Old Testament. 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 know 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 to do with the politics of the 21st century? This book explores, in typical Counterpoints format, the Old Testament command of God to exterminate the Canaanite population and what that implies about continuity between the Old and New Testaments. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The case for radical discontinuity / C.S. Cowles.  Responses / Eugene H. Merrill, Daniel L. Gard, Tremper Longman III; title: The case for moderate discontinuity / Eugene H. Merrill. Responses / C.S. Cowles, Daniel L. Gard, Tremper Longman III; title: The case for eschatological continuity / Daniel L. Gard.  Responses / C.S. Cowles, Eugene H. Merrill, Tremper Longman III; title: The case for spiritual continuity / Tremper Longman III. Responses / C.S. Cowles, Eugene H. Merrill, Daniel L. Gard.