by admin | Jun 4, 2012 | Jephthah, Section One
Jephthah was somewhat unique among the Judges. His leadership style hearkened back to someone more like Moses than the other Judges up to his time (compare Ehud,1 for instance). Though I wouldn’t expect a marauding leader of lawless men, the exiled son of a...
by admin | Jun 3, 2012 | Jesus' Artifacts, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Now preachers have no more innate knowledge of the outline of the body of Christ or the needs and functions of any particular cell at any particular moment than I do. So I hope that when they enter their quiet inner rooms to study, they are in deep communion with the...
by admin | Jun 1, 2012 | Adultery in the Prophets, Section One, Sexual Immorality
If I look now at the word group from which πορνεία is derived the idea that Jesus, Paul and the New Testament writers had idolatrous worship with its drunken sexual practices in mind when they used it, is not as strange as it first sounded. Here are the words as they...
by admin | May 31, 2012 | Jephthah, Section One
Jephthah led (šāp̄aṭ, וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט) Israel for six years; then he died and was buried in his city in Gilead.1 Samuel mentioned Jephthah, along with himself, as one the Lord sent as a deliverer from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to...
by admin | May 30, 2012 | Jesus' Artifacts, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Now to get back to where I started: How does all this information about the DNA-RNA-protein complex expand the context of my biblical understanding and prohibit me from calling this narrative PREACHERS DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE BIBLE? When a child is conceived, the...