Much of the Bible is the story of our fallible people seeking to understand and follow God. For instance, regarding the story of Israel’s war with the Canaanites—when Israel not only vanquished the enemies but went on to kill every man, woman, and child—Peter Enns argues that God never told the Israelites to kill the Canaanites. The Israelites believed that God told them to kill the Canaanites.6 This way of reading Scripture made more sense to me. It was more in line with Jesus, more in line with the way He taught us how we had misunderstood and misrepresented God even in our histories.
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