Tag Archives: The Bible Tells Me So!

Eight Things You Ought to Know About the Slaughter of the Canaanites

Posted on 2013/05/24 by Graham Veale

Deuteronomy 7 

When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

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Margaret Thatcher and the Ninth Commandment

Posted on 2013/04/20 by Graham Veale

THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR.

The purport of the commandment is, since God, who is truth, abhors falsehood, we must cultivate unfeigned truth towards each other. The sum, therefore, will be that we must not by calumnies and false accusations injure our neighbour’s name …Calvin’s Institutes

Now there’s something we’ve forgotten – the importance of a name.

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