by admin | May 17, 2012 | A Monotonous Cycle, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Though I’ve been proposing that God intervened in Israel’s history to divide the kingdom of Israel, his primary method seems to have been nonintervention. God allowed people who rebelled against him by seeking a king in the first place to continue on that same...
by admin | May 16, 2012 | A Monotonous Cycle, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
I don’t know how public Solomon was with his discontent, but I doubt he kept his secrets any better than other politicians. Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion, he wrote in the end of Ecclesiastes. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is...
by admin | May 15, 2012 | Forgiveness, Introduction
Jesus gave his disciples the following rule (Matthew 10:32, 33 NET): Whoever, then, acknowledges (ὁμολογήσει, a form of ὁμολογέω) me before people, I will acknowledge (ὁμολογήσω, another form of ὁμολογέω) before my Father in heaven.1 But whoever denies (ἀρνήσηται, a...
by admin | May 15, 2012 | A Monotonous Cycle, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
I didn’t read the Old Testament much until I was a philosophical and legalistic young man fighting my way back from atheism. I had already decided to side with God, more or less. The more I read the Old Testament the more I hated the Israelites, stupid, rebellious...
by admin | May 14, 2012 | A Monotonous Cycle, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
I have considered a passage in the Bible that seemed at first glance like a laundry list of Solomon’s wealth and power. I added more biblical background and found the same passage a fulfillment of God’s promise to Solomon. Then I read more and the laundry list...