Fixed and Pious People

But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord! It sounds like a challenge! Do what ye will, I am going to heaven! At first flush it does not sound very much like Joshua, who is commissioned to bring the people of God into the Holy Land. It seems as though he is us­ing the wrong kind of pedagogy. Listen to him, who is called upon to lead Israel aright: "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose ye this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that...