Clarification:
The idea that Jesus accommodated the sinfulness of Hebrews by commanding them to kill criminals and combatants implies He compromised truth.
CLARIFICATION - did God compromise with adultery, i.e., divorce? Did come compromise with polygamy? Slavery? Did God compromise truth??? And what about God's other "commands". Did God "command" the people to spy out the land before entering?
Numbers 13:1-3 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Send you men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a ruler among them.
3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men
were heads of the children of Israel.
But - was this God plan?
Deuteronomy 1:21-22 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up
and possess
it, as the LORD God of your fathers has said to you; fear not, neither be discouraged.
22 And you came near to me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
Did God "command" them to send in spies? YES. Was it His plan for them to send in spies? NO. Since the people were not going to follow God's plan, did God give specific commands in how to carry out THEIR plans? YES. God does this repeatedly, and still the people rebel and do not follow through even when doing it their own way and not God's.
