I Am Bound for the Compromised Land....

Cindy wrote to me with a question from her Bible Study. "In the Bible God told the Israelites to go possess the promised land. The host people there would of been the Canaanites, and all the other "ites". So the question was how is that any different than the Europeans's coming here and saying they want our land for themselves in the name of God? The only thing I can think of is because they were not using the land God gave them for good. Can anyone else help me understand and is it OK to share it with my sister at the prayer meeting?

Cindy

NOTE FROM RAY: Lucky for us natives that there is no scriptural record of the Europeans being told to go to the promised land of North America. We are not the "Promised Land" -- we are the "Compromised Land". This attitude comes from what is called "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery". I doubt that most Bible Study people would want to ready dusty old documents, but let me risk posting the link here:

The “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” - http://www.healingtheland.com/resources/discovery/index.html

This section is devoted to the documents that began, promoted, and perpetuated the so-called “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” that were used by the Europeans to “discover” and “take possession of” the New World. This pattern of “discovery” has been one of the primary factors in perpetuating the genocide of the First Nations people, not only in North America, but in the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Many of these documents have never been revoked and could continue to hold spiritual precedent in the land and over the people.