Redemptive Understanding of God's Genocidal Commands to the Israelites

Jeremy J Ahn

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Redemptive Understanding of God's Genocidal Commands to the Israelites

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Jeremy J Ahn. Redemptive Understanding of God's Genocidal Commands to the Israelites. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ce1bd1f6-0a45-4282-85c8-dba22e777db3.

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J. J. Ahn. Redemptive Understanding of God's Genocidal Commands to the Israelites. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ce1bd1f6-0a45-4282-85c8-dba22e777db3

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Jeremy J Ahn. Redemptive Understanding of God's Genocidal Commands to the Israelites. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ce1bd1f6-0a45-4282-85c8-dba22e777db3.

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Jeremy J Ahn

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Abstract

Acquiring new discipleship members is difficult when many potential candidates protest that thew instances of Old Testament genocide reveal God as one to be feared rather than loved. This thesis explains how this author's newly designed classroom materials encouraged the development of understanding and empathy in discipleship candidates for the journeying Israelites. Of fundamental importance to this thesis is this author's insight illuminating the paramount significance that each recorded genocidal command correlates with a certain Stage of the Old Testament. Formal qualitative evaluations at the conclusion of this specialized course supported this researcher's hypothesis that deeper cognitive and spiritual enlightening of the recorded Old Testament events would authentically convey a holistic, loving, and paternal God, unfolding a redemptive plan for humankind throughout the ages. This course was also designed to assess if our church's static number of new discipleship candidates would increase, especially if the instances of Old Testament genocides could be presented as acts of a a loving, redemptive God. Those discipleship candidates who completed this revised course are enthusiastically drawing new candidates by word of mouth. With the next course still two months away, we have already doubles our usual applications.

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