I have a personal opinion regarding this topic. I believe what is being overlooked here is the spiritual side of these situations. Consider, why was the penalty for many sins in the Old Covenant death? And why are Christians now instead given the option to repent, instead of an immediate execution? The answer lies in the Blood of Jesus Christ. In the Old Covenant, once you committed adultery, you were stuck with that spirit. There was no Blood of Jesus to cleanse you and free you. Look at King David. He had a problem with adultery, and his son Solomon clearly inherited the same spirit (big time), just like Exodus 34 warns. Once you opened yourself to an evil spirit in those days, you were stuck with it in most cases I believe. Since repentance WAS possible, like Jeremiah 18 shows, clearly there was some way to turn from evil and be able to stand in righteousness. So while repentance was possible, it likely took intervention from Yahweh to enable a person to do so, and likely with deliverance from the evil spirit in some cases. King David did repent, but I believe that he was still influenced by the spirit of adultery, seeing as he stayed with Bathsheba, and took more wives after her. Especially considering that Solomon had adultery on steroids, which he inherited from David. Now take a thoroughly evil society, where demonic influence is the norm, and possession likely takes place regularly. EVERYBODY is infected - the children too. If you spare those children, they will grow up doing the same evil their parents did, especially because the evil spirits had legal rights to influence them in a very very strong way. The only way to cut off the continuance of evil was to destroy every host. That meant the children too. It is exactly like cutting off a limb to save the rest of the body. If you let those children grow up, they would be accountable for their sin, and go to hell at the end of their life. Their children would be in the same boat, and you simply have a factory churning out souls for evil on the Earth and hell when dead. Putting them to death actually keeps them from growing old enough to be found guilty for their sin, and allowed them to stay in Abraham's Bosom until Jesus shed His Blood and the sin could be fully removed. I see God's mercy in their execution, as they were already infected with the evil, and with those spirits, no matter their age. I see God's mercy in the Earth, stopping truly evil abominations from being committed by that people group anymore. Allowing them to grow up would simply delay the same problem from manifesting again, which would manifest when they were old enough to act on the direction of the evil spirits affecting them. They would end up doing the same evils, and on and on it would go. Cutting them off was the only way, and ended up being more merciful overall. I know we're talking about something that seems horrible, and frankly IS horrible, but like a general having to choose who lives and who dies, and the CONSEQUENCES of letting them live, you can understand the terrible necessity of ending the entire society. Don't forget that sin is very much like a disease, and spreads to more people. This is also why no one with ANY sin can enter Heaven permanently, because it wouldn't STAY Heaven. There have been men and women who visited Heaven for God's purposes, but once you are there permanently, you are necessarily made free from ALL sin, so that it cannot spread. I can only assume that those who have visited were carefully kept from spreading sin while there by our God. This is my "take" on all of this, and I actually believe that by necessity whole societies were put to the sword, as well as individuals under the Old Covenant Law.
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I have a personal opinion regarding this topic. I believe what is being overlooked here is the spiritual side of these situations. Consider, why was the penalty for many sins in the Old Covenant death? And why are Christians now instead given the option to repent, instead of an immediate execution? The answer lies in the Blood of Jesus Christ. In the Old Covenant, once you committed adultery, you were stuck with that spirit. There was no Blood of Jesus to cleanse you and free you. Look at King David. He had a problem with adultery, and his son Solomon clearly inherited the same spirit (big time), just like Exodus 34 warns. Once you opened yourself to an evil spirit in those days, you were stuck with it in most cases I believe. Since repentance WAS possible, like Jeremiah 18 shows, clearly there was some way to turn from evil and be able to stand in righteousness. So while repentance was possible, it likely took intervention from Yahweh to enable a person to do so, and likely with deliverance from the evil spirit in some cases. King David did repent, but I believe that he was still influenced by the spirit of adultery, seeing as he stayed with Bathsheba, and took more wives after her. Especially considering that Solomon had adultery on steroids, which he inherited from David.
Now take a thoroughly evil society, where demonic influence is the norm, and possession likely takes place regularly. EVERYBODY is infected - the children too. If you spare those children, they will grow up doing the same evil their parents did, especially because the evil spirits had legal rights to influence them in a very very strong way. The only way to cut off the continuance of evil was to destroy every host. That meant the children too. It is exactly like cutting off a limb to save the rest of the body. If you let those children grow up, they would be accountable for their sin, and go to hell at the end of their life. Their children would be in the same boat, and you simply have a factory churning out souls for evil on the Earth and hell when dead. Putting them to death actually keeps them from growing old enough to be found guilty for their sin, and allowed them to stay in Abraham's Bosom until Jesus shed His Blood and the sin could be fully removed.
I see God's mercy in their execution, as they were already infected with the evil, and with those spirits, no matter their age. I see God's mercy in the Earth, stopping truly evil abominations from being committed by that people group anymore. Allowing them to grow up would simply delay the same problem from manifesting again, which would manifest when they were old enough to act on the direction of the evil spirits affecting them. They would end up doing the same evils, and on and on it would go. Cutting them off was the only way, and ended up being more merciful overall.
I know we're talking about something that seems horrible, and frankly IS horrible, but like a general having to choose who lives and who dies, and the CONSEQUENCES of letting them live, you can understand the terrible necessity of ending the entire society. Don't forget that sin is very much like a disease, and spreads to more people. This is also why no one with ANY sin can enter Heaven permanently, because it wouldn't STAY Heaven. There have been men and women who visited Heaven for God's purposes, but once you are there permanently, you are necessarily made free from ALL sin, so that it cannot spread. I can only assume that those who have visited were carefully kept from spreading sin while there by our God.
This is my "take" on all of this, and I actually believe that by necessity whole societies were put to the sword, as well as individuals under the Old Covenant Law.