Month: June 2012

  • Some History Worth Considering

    Marianne Dacy,  The Separation of Early Christianity from Judaism I recently lectured In Israel on the separation of Judaism and Christianity.  One of my sources was the Ph.D. thesis of Marianne Dacy.  Without providing the context (I am sorry about that), I thought it was important enough for you to read some of her conclusions…

  • Ferrari Grace

    So, then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.  Romans 7:12  NASB Law – I live on Thoroughbred Lane, but the only horses I have ever had are the ones packed into the back of fine examples of human engineering like this Ferrari 512TR that used to grace my…

  • Once More into the Breach

    Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever -“  Genesis 3:22  NASB Live forever – Before we attempt to understand this tangled verse, we…

  • God of Vengeance

    “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both men…

  • The Story Repeats Itself

    Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever -“  Genesis 3:22  NASB Might – In Hebrew, you notice that one particular word is repeated,…

  • God’s Rival

    Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever -“  Genesis 3:22  NASB Knowing – What does it mean to know good and evil as…

  • Out of the Garden

    “The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to prisoners; . . .”   Isaiah 61:1 (and Luke 4:18 with modifications)  NASB Sent – The…

  • What Word Would You Choose?

    So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.  Genesis 3:23  NIV Banished – Most of us develop our theology from visual imagery.  We think of the Garden as an idyllic place and the expulsion from the Garden as something utterly tragic.  Notice…

  • A Woman’s Doxology

    For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.  1 Corinthians 11:7  NASB Glory – What an exegetical disaster we have made of Paul’s off-hand remark!  What nonsense, what heresy we have perpetrated upon women as a…