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The sexual revolution has failed to live up to its promises. This book looks at how the Christian view offers a better story.
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Jan 18, 2010 · This note was a promise that all men — yes, Black men as well as white men — would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
- The Torah’s Lawgiving Narrative
- Difficulties in The Narrative
- Explaining The Difficulties Using Source Criticism
- Redacting The Four Documents
- When Did The Redaction Happen?
Booming- thunder and bolts of lightning accompany Moses as he descends the cloud-covered Mount Sinai, bearing aloft two heavy tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. Most people know this cinematic version—à la Cecil B. de Mille—of the giving of the law on Sinai. The biblical version, however, is much less familiar, even to many devoted reader...
For all its detail, this lengthy narrative abounds in incongruities and other difficulties. Here are some of the main problems: 1. In the first half of Exodus 19:9, God announces to Moses that the Sinai theophany will soon take place. The second half of the verse says that Moses next conveyed the people’s response to God. Response to what? Their po...
The source-critical theory of the composition of the Torah, also known as the documentary hypothesis, is a modern attempt to answer these questions.It begins by acknowledging that (1) the laws given on the mountaintop and conveyed immediately to the people as part of a covenant (Exodus 20:19–23:33), (2) the laws given to Moses as part of another co...
It should be evident that these four accounts were not composed to complement or supplement each other. In fact, each account ignores the existence of the others. Even D, which is clearly parallel to E, does not pick up where E leaves off. Rather, it is a similar but competing account, contradicting E not only in its view of how Israel received the...
We may never know when this extremely sophisticated literary process took place. Scholars differ on the origin and interrelationship of the separate documents. Many scholars suggest that they were combined into one around the time of the return from the Babylonian Exile (fifth centuryB.C.E.), when the imperial Persian authorities granted legal and ...
Jan 1, 2021 · Archaeology has confirmed Shechem’s location, its history, and many Biblical details. In this article I will integrate what archaeology has illuminated about this important place and its geographical importance with a macro look at Shechem’s place in revealing God’s promise and plan to restore believers to Him. 1
This is what the Lord says concerning you: You will not die by the sword; 5 you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honor of your predecessors, the kings who ruled before you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, “Alas, master!”. I myself make this promise, declares the Lord.’”.
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The stone stayed in Scotland until 1296, when England’s King Edward I absconded with it to Westminster, where he had a specially designed throne built with a platform and cavity to hold the prized rock.
