Moral Stop Signs

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Wash, become pure, remove your evil acts from My eyes.  Cease doing evil.  Learn to do good . . .  Isaiah 1:16-17a  Robert Alter Cease – Yesterday we learned that God rejects all religious acts if the underlying principle of compassion for others is missing in society.  Oh, perhaps you need to read that sentence…

The Cure (4)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,  Isaiah 1:16  ESV Cease – If removing evil was the same as not doing it anymore, then it would not be necessary to have two verbs connected to this idea.  But there are two verbs here. …