Besides Tex, who believes that the OT provisions directing Irsaelites to mass murder

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

I voted for "Yes", even though the commentary tied to that response was nonsense.

With you as a fundamental reductionist I am not surprised. jay's was a joke.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

With you as a fundamental reductionist I am not surprised. jay's was a joke.

I don't care if Jay's was a joke or not. I'm not exactly prone to keeping an eye on Jay to figure out how to think about something.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

I'm not exactly prone to keeping an eye on Jay to figure out how to think about something.

There's your first mistake. You could do a lot worse than Jay Santos as a spiritual guide.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by YOhio

There's your first mistake. You could do a lot worse than Jay Santos as a spiritual guide.

Well, there is a venerable axiom along the lines of "there's always something worse"...

[JohnnyLingo]

Originally Posted by YOhio

There's your first mistake. You could do a lot worse than Jay Santos as a spiritual guide.

Personally, I'm a bit wary of using anyone on Cougarguard as a spiritual guide. Or Cougarboard, for that matter.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by JohnnyLingo

Personally, I'm a bit wary of using anyone on Cougarguard as a spiritual guide. Or Cougarboard, for that matter.

Utefans?

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Utefans?

I'm pretty sure if you use Utefans for anything, you'd best be up to date on your innoculation chart.

[Tex]

1 Ne. 17:32-38

32 And after they had crossed the river Jordan he did make them mighty unto the driving out of the children of the land, yea, unto the scattering them to destruction.
33 And now, do ye suppose that the children of this land, who were in the land of promise, who were driven out by our fathers, do ye suppose that they were righteous? Behold, I say unto you, Nay.
34 Do ye suppose that our fathers would have been more choice than they if they had been righteous? I say unto you, Nay.
35 Behold, the Lord esteemeth all flesh in one; he that is righteous is favored of God. But behold, this people had rejected every word of God, and they were ripe in iniquity; and the fulness of the wrath of God was upon them; and the Lord did curse the land against them, and bless it unto our fathers; yea, he did curse it against them unto their destruction, and he did bless it unto our fathers unto their obtaining power over it.
36 Behold, the Lord hath created the earth that it should be inhabited; and he hath created his children that they should possess it.
37 And he raiseth up a righteous nation, and destroyeth the nations of the wicked.
38 And he leadeth away the righteous into precious lands, and the wicked he destroyeth, and curseth the land unto them for their sakes.

Some of the LDS cross-references include Ex 34:11 ("I drive out before thee"), Josh 11:6 ("I deliver them all up slain"), and Josh 24:8 ("I destroyed them from before you").

Gee, Archaea, it sure sounds like Nephi was ratifying the Lord's command to destroy an entire people, but I'll be interested to see if your Urim and Thummim shows differently.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Tex

1 Ne. 17:32-38

32 And after they had crossed the river Jordan he did make them mighty unto the <b>driving out</b> of the children of the land, yea, unto the scattering them to <b>destruction</b>.
33 And now, do ye suppose that the children of this land, who were in the land of promise, who were <b>driven out</b> by our fathers, do ye suppose that they were righteous? Behold, I say unto you, Nay.
34 Do ye suppose that our fathers would have been more choice than they if they had been righteous? I say unto you, Nay.
35 Behold, the Lord esteemeth all flesh in one; he that is righteous is favored of God. But behold, this people had rejected every word of God, and they were ripe in iniquity; and the <b>fulness of the wrath of God</b> was upon them; and the Lord did curse the land against them, and bless it unto our fathers; yea, <b>he did curse it against them unto their destruction, and he did bless it unto our fathers unto their obtaining power over it</b>.
36 Behold, the Lord hath created the earth that it should be inhabited; and he hath created his children that they should possess it.
37 And he raiseth up a righteous nation, and <b>destroyeth</b> the nations of the wicked.
38 And he leadeth away the righteous into precious lands, and the <b>wicked he destroyeth</b>, and curseth the land unto them for their sakes.

Some of the LDS cross-references include Ex 34:11 ("I drive out before thee"), Josh 11:6 ("I deliver them all up slain"), and Josh 24:8 ("I destroyed them from before you").

Gee, Archaea, it sure sounds like Nephi was ratifying the Lord's command to destroy an entire people, but I'll be interested to see if your Urim and Thummim shows differently.

He recited what the traditions that the Hebrews taught post Northern Kingdom exile, but pre Judaic exile. So what. Show me where he advocated and implemented the same MO in Nephite history. A traditional recitation of Hebrew tradition is hardly an endorsement.

And having a land cursed so that one loses one's grip is hardly an endorsement for mass murder. Read the nuance, New Mex guy.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Archaea

He recited what the traditions that the Hebrews taught post Northern Kingdom exile, but pre Judaic exile. So what. Show me where he advocated and implemented the same MO in Nephite history. A traditional recitation of Hebrew tradition is hardly an endorsement.

And having a land cursed so that one loses one's grip is hardly an endorsement for mass murder. Read the nuance, New Mex guy.

Don't change the subject.

You asked for extra-Biblical scriptural evidence that God actually commanded such a deed, and I gave it to you.