It is clear from the stories of both the Hebrew midwives who saved innocent children with their deception and Rahab who saved Israelite spies with her deception that God does not consider lying to be wrong in all situations.The principle that we learn from story of Rahab and the Israelite spi...
In the Manosphere we have a movement of men called MGTOW (Men going their own way) which basically uses stories of men being abused by women with stories of women cheating on their husbands only to take their kids, their money and leaving the guy in the poor house to discourage men from...
In Chapter Seven, Van Leeuwen explores how “sacred values differ from ordinary preferences” (179) based on his claim that “religious credences are the identity-constituting imaginative attitudes that generate symbolic actions and fold people, places, and things into sacralizing doctrines and storie...
sibly they did not smell all that pleasant. They no doubt were very excited and loudly proclaiming what they had seen and heard. As they shared the stories of the angels, no doubt Mary remembered her visit from Gabriel. What reassurance to know that others now had heard the wonderful messa...
But they can hardly encourage men either, as any mission is about serving people’s needs – and stories about serving are very seldom stories about male leadership. Category: Other Thoughts 1Comment On being a real woman, undeceived by flowery prose ...
(p. 17). The annual feasts and celebrations of the Israelite community included all generations. The core purpose of the feasts was to remind the Israelites what God had done for them in ages past. Allen states, “As children and teens danced, sang, ate, listened to the stories, and ...
For years, I notebooked with our children. We took nature walks and studied the seasons together. We did copy work and read stories of brave men and women who followed God with an abandon that most only dream about. And we spent a lot of time on the couch. ...
for Pete’s sakes. It was hard cover and about an inch and a half thick. It contained illustrated stories from the Bible, but little coherency, and although I only glanced through it, no sound doctrine that I could see, yet it was called a Bible. Granted, it stands head and ...
The Marvel movies (if they are not already) will be the defining saga of this generation, in the same way that the original Star Wars movies (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi) were the defining stories of the end of the 20th century. Having said all of ...
men MUST physically discipline their wives. But it certainly provides a good example of how discipline can be implemented. And the truth is, despite humanist studies to the contrary, physical discipline is far more effective and leads to faster changes in behavior for both adults and ...