by admin | Dec 29, 2016 | Section Three, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
I spend a large portion of my Christmas holiday with three post-Christian women I’ll call Grandmother, Mother and Daughter because of their relationship to one another. I call them post-Christian because they were all professing Christians at one time. Grandmother...
by admin | Apr 8, 2015 | Forgiven or Passed Over?, Section Three
I studied ʽâbar through Genesis. Nothing so far justifies translating it forgiven in Nathan’s response to David’s confession—Yes, and the Lord has forgiven (ʽâbar, העביר; Septuagint: παρεβίβασεν) your sin.[1] But ʽâbar kept some evocative company for anyone studying...
by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Forgiven or Passed Over?, Section Three
Revisiting an essay—David’s Forgiveness, Part 1—I realized I had put an inordinate emphasis on the word forgiven without looking into the meaning of the original Hebrew word. My suspicion of Bible translators feels at times like a paranoid schizophrenic’s fear of the...
by admin | Jul 24, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
How blessed are those whose actions are blameless, Psalm 119 begins, who obey the law of the Lord. How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart, who, moreover, do no wrong, but follow in his footsteps. You demand that your precepts...
by admin | Jul 2, 2012 | Forgiveness, Jedidiah, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Imagine if Bill Clinton or George W. Bush did what David did and got off like that. But I’m more interested in knowing the only true God, and Jesus Christ,1 and trying to understand Him these days, than fretting over ancient history. Besides, I’m nobody, and though...