Big Ideas · 20 · Jonah

Their kingdoms fell, but their God didn't

If defeat came from breaking the covenant, God remained powerful and the prophets had been right. The people simply needed to behave differently.

Defeat as proof of God's power.

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The consistent criticism of ancestors, even the exodus generation, is neither conservative nor simply 'monotheistic.'

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 326

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