Mar 2015
Chapter 6 - Conquest
28/03/15 15:58 Filed in: Conquest
In chapter 5. God’s people, formerly powerless slaves, became a kingdom of priests in the desert. Now in chapter 6, Israel finally entered the Promised Land, the land of Canaan. And so begins one of the hardest to understand parts of the Bible In the story of the conquest of Canaan, we read how God seemingly orders wholesale slaughter. What do we do when God acts more like a tribal warlord than the God of unending love? “What are we supposed to do with a Bible like this? What are we supposed to do with a God like this?”
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Chapter 5 - Community (Part Two): Sinai
03/03/15 20:30 Filed in: Community
In chapter 5, God takes those slaves and transforms their identity to create a nation: the children of Israel, the people of God. Instead of being grateful for the mighty acts of God in Egypt, the people began to complain in the wilderness. God remained faithful, and established a covenant treaty at Mount Sinai, which we know as the Ten Commandments, or Torah. God remained faithful to the covenant, even as God’s people did not.
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