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Child Sacrifice and Jephthah’s Vow to God

Published on July 9, 2023 By sirrahc

“The Bible’s weird, but maybe not as weird as it seems at first.” — Robby Lashua, Stand to Reason This post is about one of those passages in the Bible that makes one say, “He did WHAT?!!” It is from Judges 11, in which the Israelites (specifically, those east of the River Jordan in the […]

Difference Between Samson and a Suicide Bomber

Published on February 4, 2018 By sirrahc

“He pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the leaders and all the people in it. And the dead he killed at his death were more than those he had killed in his life.”  — Judges 16:30b (HCSB) It wasn’t all that long ago — certainly within my lifetime — that instances […]