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    Sin Of Achan Essay

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    unity of the Body of Christ in the world." - Paul E Wells The OEC had committed the sin of Achan (Joshua 7), an Israelite of the clan of Zerah who had participated in the assault on Jericho. After the battle, the Lord instructed Joshua to burn everything in the city that belonged to the people of Jericho except for the silver and gold. Joshua then brought these things to the House of the Lord. Joshua, obeyed God in imposing a herem on Jericho, which Achan subsequently violated. He stole a beautiful

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    The Holocost

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    For example in the film "Life is Beautiful," Joshua never feared the Nazis or even fearful of anything for that matter. Because,

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    Short Story Of Eliseo

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    As the stories continues, we can see the details of this magnificent story of love unfold. Guido, Dora, Joshua, & Eliseo end up in different places at the camp. Once they arrive to the camp, the Nazi separated the groups by gender, the women ended up at one part of the camp and the men in another. Guido ended up being a slave and working for a piece of bread. The innocent Joshua thinking that everything is a game was hiding form the Nazis. Dora apparently was on laundry duty picking up the remains

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    Murder in the Bible Essay

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    or not being a virgin on your wedding night. In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport. There are also countless examples of mass murders commanded by God, including the murder of women, infants,

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    The documentary series True Life aired their fourteenth episode on season … “I have schizophrenia.” In this episode three young adults, Joshua, Ben, and Amber, are followed through their daily routines recording how this illness affect their lives and how they manage to handle their mental illness. Each one of them experiences this illness different and that influences their decisions on medical care and the way they interactions others and the outside world. Society often sees people that suffer

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    How Has the Holocaust Been Represented in Film? ‘The Holocaust’ was the massacre of nearly six million Jews in parts of Europe controlled by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party leading up to and during World War II. When the Nazi party first came to power in 1933 they began building on the anti-Semitist feelings in Germany; introducing new legislations that gradually removed the Jews from society such as the Nuremberg Laws which prohibited marriage or extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and

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    Joshua who thinks less of the people of the other ridge and consider there rituals like circumcision which is done with songs and dances to be a s sin. “In fact Joshua believed circumcision so sinful that he devoted a prayer for God to forgive him for marrying a circumcised woman” (wa Thiango31). This also shows his sexist attitude towards woman. Before Joshua was one of them who followed their rituals he and his wife are both circumcised. However, after the missioners came Joshua started

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    Rahab the Harlot Essay

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    Focus Verse: Hebrews 11:31 (NKJ) By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace. Chapter 2 of Joshua details the story of Rahab the harlot. When God sent Joshua and the children of Israel across the Jordan River and into the land of Canaan to take possession of the land, the first order of business was to destroy the city of Jericho. It was one of the largest, most prosperous, and most thoroughly fortified cities in the land

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    continue the description of the commandments. But, the book of Joshua deviates away from the focus of the previous chapters. Instead of the chain of power moving from the prophets and onto their sons, Joshua, Moses’ servant, becomes the new prophet. A family god focuses their attention onto the immediate bloodline, like in the case of Abraham’s lineage, as opposed to an overall population. The god of Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy and Joshua does not solely communicate with, and hand down power and knowledge

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    and the Jews in these regions fell in the hands of the Babylonians, and the king of Babylon resumed collecting the tax which the Egyptian Pharaoh used to collect from the people of Judea. (2 kings 24:1-2, 7, 10-17; 2 Chronicles 36:5-10). When the children of Israel was carried away to the land of Babylon and Assyria, they were then replaced by foreigners (2 Kings 17:23-24). When the Persians conquered Babylon, the kingdom of Judea, the Canaanite and the Babylonians fell into the hands of the Persian

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