ahead of its time

The story of Jericho isn't so cute when we consider the violence associated with it. But if we read it in light of the time it was written, we see a God who doesn't take sides like we do.

The bible is a book that's filled with things our modern mind have a hard time grasping, but if we read it in light of when it was written, we see just how forward thinking it is. For the first time in all of human literature, Paul writes that we are all equal, that none is superior than the other, that race or gender or social status doesn't matter.