No.14 Referenced from ~ Part1 - Chapter 2 - Argument 1-2

That God would go out of his way to promise the Israelites the land of Canaan is nothing more than an indication that the land did not originally belong to them

The basis for their claim to Palestine and Canaan was the Abrahamic Covenant that God made with Abram (later Abraham), the ancestor of Israel. This covenant first appears in Genesis chapter 12, and is subsequently repeated in various forms. Chapter 15 reads as follows:

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.” (Genesis 15:18-21 NIV)

What does this article tell us? That God would go out of his way to promise the Israelites the land of Canaan is nothing more than an indication that the land did not originally belong to them. In fact, according to the above account, there were indigenous people on the land. The Abrahamic Covenant recorded in the Old Testament testifies to this fact even to the present day.