“Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, a people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak! Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire HE SHALL DESTROY THEM, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, … Continue reading Judgment not genocide

I fell away from thee, O my God, and in my youth Iwandered too far from thee, my true support. And I became to myself a wasteland. – Augustine 400 ADish “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: And my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and … Continue reading Thy omnipotence