Genetic Study Shows Modern Lebanese are Ancient Canaanites: Does It Prove, or Deny Scripture?

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz : Jul 31, 2017
Breaking Israel News

Skeptics desperately trying to debunk the Bible are called out.

(Israel)—[Breaking Israel News] A recent study of genetic material taken from 4,000-year-old skeletons links the modern Lebanese to the Biblical Canaanites, leading to "debunking" claims by scientists that the Biblical narrative commanding the Israelites to wipe out the occupants of the land is false. A closer look shows that the study actually proves the Biblical version is accurate, and that scientists should pay closer attention to the Bible. (Image: "The Extermination of the Canaanites," F. Phillippoteaux/Wikimedia Commons/via BIN)

As the pre-Israelite pagan inhabitants of the Promised Land, Canaanites played a major role in the Biblical narrative, and the Jews were commanded by God to utterly wipe them out from the land...

"Despite the Torah commandment, even in Biblical times, the Canaanites were not wiped out," Rabbi Winston told Breaking Israel News. "The Israelites were permitted to make deals with them, allowing them to remain in the land as slaves. And if they fled outside of Israel, there was no requirement to chase them down"...

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