The Fall

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!  Isaiah 5:20  NASB Evil good – The history of Mankind, as the rabbis note, is a nightmare.  Empire after empire followed the path falsely attributed to Alexander Tytler:…

Our Place in Genesis 3

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 NASB Woe to those – hoy ha ‘omerim. “Woe to those who call.” Isaiah’s pronouncement pushes us back to Genesis. And it’s not just Havvah who stands before…

Blasphemy Against the Spirit

Woe to those who say to evil, good; and to good, evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 (KJV) Evil/Good – What characterizes the ethics of the world more than this?  “Evil is good, good is evil.”  At some level, most…