
34: The Hardest Story in the Bible (for me)
The BEMA Podcast
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Game of Throne - Two Things to Wrestle With
In the book of joshua, Joshua seems to be acting very much like the pagan commanders of the world around him. When he conquers a king, he'll take their bodies and he impales them on large, sharpened poles outside the city gates. This is how am this has long been a move of war in the ancient world. But what's shocking is, eh, my next observation. He doesn't do any mocking and chiding inappropriately. He he disposes of the bodies by nightfall. So there's, there are things that joshua is doing that makes him stand out as a commander, a conqueror that has a totally different mo of ethics than any
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