Why is the world the way that it is? Why is there such hatred and violence? Why is there injustice and racism? The Bible’s answer to these kinds of questions is sin. The most common understanding of sin is that it is breaking God’s law . That is one way that the Bible describes what sin but not the only way that the Bible talks about sin. Read Judges 17:1-13 This section of Judges is often ignored because everything up to this point has been really interesting. The book of Judges offers a brief history of Israel as they come into Canaan the Promised Land. The book also functions as an “apologetic” for the monarchy in general and David in particular. In the first 16 chapters of the book we have these fantastic stories. The people would slide into sin and when they did they soon became enslaved by some foreign power. The people would cry out to God to be rescued and saved. In response God wo...
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