Answering Objections Against the Existence of God How could God approve the slaughter of innocent children?

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Answering Objections Against the Existence of God How could God approve the slaughter of innocent children?

The Moral Perfection of God

The Scriptures affirm that God is morally perfect! He is holy! And one called out to another and said, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory.” (Isaiah 6:3)

He is just and righteous! Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Thy throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before Thee. (Psalm 89:14)

He is good! For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting, and His faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100:5)

All that God does, commands, and approves must of necessity be good. Turn away my reproach which I dread, for Thine ordinances are good. (Psalm 119:39) Thou art near, O Lord, and all Thy commandments are truth. (Psalm 119:151)

God’s Command to Destroy the Canaanites

The Lord instructed Israel to smite completely the peoples, and to show no mercy upon them. “When the Lord your God shall bring you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and shall clear away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the Lord your God shall deliver them before you, and you shall defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

“Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. “For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will quickly destroy you. “But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. (Deuteronomy 7:1-5)

“And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword” (Joshua 6:21).

How Can These Two Things Be Reconciled? The Moral Perfection of God God’s Command to Destroy the Canaanites

The Lord had been very patient with these grossly immoral pagan tribes for a long time. “Then in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.” (Genesis 15:16) It was not a violation of His goodness; rather it was to preserve it, that He had them destroyed.

The societies of Canaan were extremely corrupt! Archaeological discoveries, such as those at Ugarit, have revealed the corruptness of the Canaanite nations. “You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 23:18)

The Canaanite religion was a horribly brutal system as well. The goddess Anath is pictured as killing humans by the thousands and wading knee- deep in blood. Funerary jars have been found with the bodies of young children distorted by suffocation as they struggled for life after having been buried alive as a sacrifice to Canaanite gods.

The destruction of these wicked people was for the preservation of Israel and the accomplishment of God’s purpose. “that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God” (Deuteronomy 20:18). The extermination of the wicked inhabitants of Canaan, therefore, was an example of moral surgery in order to save the life of the patient (the human race).

God, because of who He is, has the right to render judgment upon evil at any time.

But why were children included?

In a world where there is to be freedom of choice, one must be allowed to suffer the consequences of wrong choice making, even when he is not a party to such choices.

How could the Israelites execute their mission while discriminating between “innocents” and “guilty”?

Would it not have been infinitely worse, in view of eternity, had these children grown to maturity and adopted the same pagan practices as their parents?

No man has the right to criticize the moral activity of God! No man occupies a platform upon which to judge the actions of God. “Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answer it.” (Job 40:2 )