There is so much slaughter of people and animals in the early books of the Bible, and yet one of the Ten Commandments is “Thou shalt not kill.” I wonder why God did not kill the inhabitants of the land which He had chosen for the Israelites instead of instructing them to kill all the people, eve…
Slaughter of the Canaanites – Joshua 10 and 11 Read More »
The questioner raises some interesting issues, some of which have been cause for controversy for over one hundred years. There are really a number of classes of individuals referred to in the question. There are those first mentioned who have knowledge of gospel truth, but by deliberate choice do no…
“Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?” Genesis18:25 Read More »
Even with all the record of Scripture, and the works of creation about us, how dimly we perceive the majesty and power of our God. Solomon declared: “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?�…
A correspondent writes: “Note 2 Chronicles 5:10: ‘There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb’; and compare Hebrews 9:4: ‘the ark of the covenant … wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant…
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Numbers in Scripture can perplex us. Sometimes the numbers seem too large to be really credible. Sometimes there seem to be discrepancies between numbers in different scriptural texts bearing on the same incident. We may come back to some of these issues, but want to just consider one example for th…
Perplexing Numbers; 24,000 or 23,000? Read More »
A questioner asks: “Wrested Scriptures shows that the Satan of 1 Chronicles 21:1 is the Lord of 2 Samuel 24:1. If God was angry with the people of Israel and wanted to punish them, why do you think He instructed David to number Israel? 1 Chronicles 21:7 indicates that God was displeased with David…
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A reader is troubled by the multitude of statues, images etc surrounding us, even in our homes, and wonders what is legitimate.
In 2 Kings 23:11–14 King Josiah rightly destroyed all the heathen idols: “He tore down the statues of horses and chariots” (Living Bible) … “He brake in pieces t…
Idolatry in today’s world Read More »
In the last issue we considered one of the examples of apparent discrepancy in Bible numbers. Another issue where some suggest the numbers don’t add up is the number of Israelites who left Egypt to embark on the exodus to the Promised Land. To have 603,550 men over twenty years and fit for war if …
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It is difficult to think of the Western World as Christian any longer. Our societies are secular, with a significant atheist component becoming more assertive as “Christians” become more timid. Increasingly we face attacks upon the veracity and even the morality of Scripture. One topic aggressiv…
The Bible and Slavery Read More »
“I love animals and I hate to see them suffer or be killed, so I am a vegetarian. I really struggle with the requirement for the shedding of blood and all those sacrifices of animals under the Law of Moses.”
This comment was made to me by someone who was quite troubled, and I hope my response w…
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