James, not all of my thinking is on the right track but, I have felt that the necessities of the Old Testament were different than in the time of the New Testament, and the solutions were therefore of a different nature. God had to mold the people of Abraham into the nation that would best serve His purposes, and then had to see that they were able to find, and establish the land that had been chosen for them. This, apparently, required the savage warfare we see waged by Moses, and then by Joshua.
As I understand it, the New Testament takes over hundreds or thousands, of years after the establishment of Israel and Judea. Don't forget, I have not had much in depth study of this, and admittedly can be off base. Even though happenings like the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Legions, the basic boundries were set geographically, and it was time for God to begin the process of bringing souls back to the proper path through the crucifixion of Jesus which began the Faith we now adhere to. Different circumstances, different rules.
BTW, Osceola was a Seminole chief, the tribal name in the Creek/Muscogee language that meant "run aways" because the original Seminole tribe was made up of those who ran away from the tribal laws of the Creek nation. While Osceola is noted for never signing a treaty with the whites, I am in no way associated with his tribe. :^)
~;=;o --haqi |
