Was Amos right in his views on God and Israel and his predictions of Israel's future
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- Was Amos right in his views on God and Israel and his predictions of Israel's future?
- Amos' predictions were wrong
- Predictions were never exactly fulfilled
- On a number of counts Amos went too far. He was out of order.
- Amos misrepresents the justice of God, He would not punish the innocent with the guilty
- The fall of Samaria was unconnected with the sins of Bethel
- It wasn't Israel's fault
- Natural disasters are not related to human sin
- Jeroboam II reigned for two decades
- Predictions were never exactly fulfilled
- Amos' predictions were right
- Loss of ten tribes
- An unjust, lawless society will always self destruct
- Fall of Samaria and exile within half a century
- The destruction of the Northern sanctuaries
- Amos' predictions were wrong
- 'Amos' was right in his predictions of Israel's future'
- Correct
- Assyrian deportation policy meant that the Northern kingdom 'disappeared'
- From 746 BCE Israel was in continual turmoil
- The dynasty ended when Jeroboam II's son was assassinated soon after his accession
- If the glimmers of hope and the final oracles come from Amos, then they are too correct
- Some may have escaped to Judah
- Descendants of some of those deported to Babylon may have joined those deported later from Judah to Babylon
- Fall of Samaria and end of Northern kingdom of Israel in 721 BCE
- Incoorrect
- The optimistic oracles were not spoken by Amos but came from a later age so are irrelevant to this debate
- Correct
- Right as the broad principles are valid for all time
- The belief that God punishes sin
- The belief that corruption and injustice end in disaster for perpetrators and victims
- Correct
- Assyrian deportation policy meant that the Northern kingdom 'disappeared'
- From 746 BCE Israel was in continual turmoil
- The dynasty ended when Jeroboam II's son was assassinated soon after his accession
- If the glimmers of hope and the final oracles come from Amos, then they are too correct
- Some may have escaped to Judah
- Descendants of some of those deported to Babylon may have joined those deported later from Judah to Babylon
- Fall of Samaria and end of Northern kingdom of Israel in 721 BCE
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