Answer:
Rewarding obedience and righteousness. Typical biblical themes. Often the allusion of Sodom and Gomorrah is used to convey either total destruction or punishment of sinners.
Explanation:
- In the Genesis account, God reveals to Abraham that Sodom and Gomorrah are to be destroyed for their grave sins (18:20). Abraham pleads for the lives of any righteous people living there, especially the lives of his nephew, Lot, and his family.
- In Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of divine retribution. The Bible mentions that the cities were destroyed for their sins, haughtiness, egoism, and an attempt at u know.
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Answer: Here's all the land pieces I know
Louisiana Purchase: Sold by Napoleon to the US in 1803
Flordia: The Adam-Onis Treaty seceded Florida the US
CA, NV, UT, AZ: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war and these territories are called the Mexican cession.
Texas: (kinda complicated) Texas won its own independence and became the Lone Star state. Because of slave issues they did not admit Texas for a number of years. The Mexcian-American war did secure a lot of these lands
Oregon Territory: This land was previously co-ruled by Britsh and the US. They wanted this to end so they divided the land in half at the 49th parallel. President Polk tried to push for more land but was rejected.
Gadsden Purchase: Last purchase of land until Alaska or Hawaii. Bought from the Mexican government to build an easier railroad route (avoid tunning through the Rocky Mountains). This is a small portion of land below New Mexico.
Answer:
We can still see god's covenants in some of the laws and political issues of today. Our strict intolerance surely arises from murder and billions of people today follow abrahamic religions, introducing its principles into their personal lives. Debates on political issues like abortion are greatly influenced by religion as people resist things that go against teh Bible.
Explanation:
Religion still has mass influence in society.
They stressed the direction of all human activity toward the goal of increasing the power of the ruler and the state.
