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Genesis 15 and the conquest of Canaan

Tue, 07/01/2014 - 11:59 -- James Oakley

Many Christians struggle with the conquest of Canaan in the Old Testament. We don't get there until the book of Joshua, but to the modern mind it can seem like barbaric genocide. The people of Israel were told to conquer the land of Canaan, which was already occupied.

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