BIBLICAL WAR, AND PEACE

The battle of Jericho..
The walls...
God who kept his promises.

It's always so interesting that people understand that it's not meant literally when Jesus says: "Eat my body and drink my blood".

But they take this text literal:
"....and Joshua did lead the Israelites into battle, not only with Jericho, but many battles.
And each step of the way, God told Jericho what Joshua should do, and exactly how the Israelites would win.
God kept God’s promise and delivered the enemies into the Israelites hands.
God kept God’s promise of not failing or forsaking Israel.
God promised and God delivered."

Isn't taking this literal one of the hughest problems of our time and the times before us?

Presidents leading young men and women into battle with guns and boms, killing those who don't have the same point of view on life and religion and on matters like the ownership of land, stating that God is leading them.

Why do people forget the ten commandments?
They're the core of the Message Jesus brought to us.

The battle is the battle we have to fight with ourselves.
To be altruistic, to respect, not to be jealous, to care.
We're not allowed to kill.

God kept his promise by giving us life and the challenges living brings with it.
He kept his promise by giving us the feeling of guilt and by giving us brains, and the ability to discriminate between justice and injustice.
And what do people do?
They forget about the babies that are killed, they destroy the promise of life, because they feel better with feelings of victory over killed enemies.

We are our own worst enemy... (Well, most of us are.) Like the people who followed Joshua.
They had to change to become good and respectable people in the promised land.
God helped them to become good people...


This was long ago...too long ago.
His Message is bended to something we like to hear, or which fullfills our inner longing or even political strategies.

But how many truly hear his word?