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Judges 9-10

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Time will run out Abimelech became a king by killing his own brothers with the help of Shechemites, citizens of the Shechem. Only the youngest, Jotham was able to run away. But before he ran away for good he told the people that Abimelech is not the right king and he reminded the people of his father, "For my father [Gideon] fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian, and you have risen up against my father's house this day and have killed his sons." (verse 17,18) Not too long after the citizens of Shechem started turning against Abimelech saying "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him?... is not Zebul his officer?" (verse 28) Zebul heard all this and passed it along to Abimelech. This started a war between Abimelech, his men versus the city of Shechem. Abimelech won this battle, and he went into neighboring cities to also destroy them. HE went from one city to the next killing women and ...
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Is Old Testament God and New Testament God the same God?

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When I first started studying the Bible I often didn't get the point of the Old Testament. Yes there are important stories and prophesies and everything, but in the Old Testament God seems so harsh and rough. It's somehow harder to understand Him and it almost seems that only the most holy people are able to talk to Him! But how can it be? We all know that God is the same yesterday, today and forever! That's very true!...Being a student at a public university means I'm being exposed to people of different understanding with diversity of opinions and beliefs. I've had classmates and professors who used to read Bible as literature and couldn't understand why would someone want to worship such strict and harsh God? They were convinced that if God exists then Christians just worship Jesus because they're just afraid that God will send them to go to Hell if they don't...these people probably read only a portion of one story or just misunderstood some th...
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