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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures: January 2015
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Exodus, then and now. This week will be all about Exodus. The word "exodus" means, according to Google, "a mass departure of people, especially emigrants." When people leave like that, hastily and in large groups, they are generally leaving something intolerable. So back to the Bible. Last time, I talked about dreams and about how Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh's dream as indicating seven years of plenty coming, followed by seven ye...
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures: January 2013
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures. Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Life in the Desert. Moses must have seemed scary when he lifted his rod and it turned into a serpent. He must have seemed unusually powerful when he lifted his rod and the Red Sea parted. He brought back the Ten Commandments from God. Sometimes, nostalgia provides a bizarrely false image of the past. More on Moses later! Wednesday, January 23, 2013. Well, Moses' mother didn't want her son to be a statistic so she hid her son and then p...
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures: Exodus, then and now
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Exodus, then and now. This week will be all about Exodus. The word "exodus" means, according to Google, "a mass departure of people, especially emigrants." When people leave like that, hastily and in large groups, they are generally leaving something intolerable. So back to the Bible. Last time, I talked about dreams and about how Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh's dream as indicating seven years of plenty coming, followed by seven ye...
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures: March 2013
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures. Sunday, March 24, 2013. A Note About Joshua. Today, I talked with Father Earle about that. He pointed out that the book of Joshua was actually written a number of centuries after the events of the book occurred. In fact, I just took a look at this website: Sun, Stand Still. The stories of gruesome massacres, which resulted in the deaths of all living things within a city (men, women, children, babies, animals, and plants), was exaggerated. It may never have oc...
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures: April 2013
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures. Monday, April 22, 2013. The Philistines are mentioned in several books of the Bible as being the nemesis of the Israelites. There were huge battles and casualties listed in the thousands but I was mystified. who were the Philistines? The Israelites were fighting wars against people who are just lacking in taste? That doesn't seem to me to be much of a reason to fight a war. I found a good deal of information about the Philistines from this website. So, here are so...
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures: Trees in the Bible
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures. Sunday, January 18, 2015. Trees in the Bible. Yesterday, I finished my second week of 52 in the Read the Entire Bible in a Year project. Last week, I wrote about creation and about the numerous flood stories that exist around the world. It seems that all religious traditions have a flood story in them. Today, I am going to write about trees. Trees produce oxygen. We need to breathe and mature trees provide the oxygen that we need. Africans have a different impress...
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Ardent Reflections Fine Art: January 2015
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Ardent Reflections Fine Art. Art blog of Artist Vicki Maheu. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. I first published this article on my new art website, ArdentReflections.com. The science class down the hall was lucky that day, they were all watching a live newscast. The door to the hall was open, that was typical. Suddenly we heard someone yelling something, then again, and again, as they got closer I was able to understand what they were saying, “It blew up! The space shuttle. It blew up! Years earlier, in fift...
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures: February 2015
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Alice's Illustrated Biblical Adventures. Wednesday, February 4, 2015. Stranger in a strange land. Yesterday and today, I have been reading all of the instructions for building the Ark of the Covenant. I will readily admit that I am not planning on building the Ark of the Covenant so my eyes have been glazing over a bit. Before I started on the Ark of the Covenant, I read these bits of advice:. Exodus 22:20: You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.