Show Them No Mercy
- Editor: Stanley N. Gundry
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2025
- Pages: 224
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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 known 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 twenty-first 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.
So, about that publication date. I'm guessing it's a typo?