Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live. And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezekiel 20:25-26
How could, or in what manner, did God give Israel such laws? Are not all of His laws good?
Why have modern translations of the Bible removed a verse traditionally held to be part of the inspired Sacred Scriptures?
Here’s a disturbing story from the Book of Joshua story of a Israelite soldier named Achan who made a terrible mistake. What I say may not make the story any less disturbing, but we will hear a great spiritual lesson related to it from St. John of the Cross.
