Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • What Only God Can Do (1)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Were You, O Yah, to watch for wrongs, Master, who could endure?  For forgiveness is Yours, so that You may be feared. Psalm 130:3-4 Robert Alter Forgiveness – “I’m sorry.  Please forgive me.”  How often those words are offered to another person!  And rightly so.  We all make mistakes and we all need forgiveness.  But Hebrew…

  • Which Bible?

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness;  2 Timothy 3:16  NASB Inspired – Please don’t get me wrong.  I’m not trying to poke holes in your favorite English Bible translation.  But I do want to point out that there might be a great many…

  • A Critical Commentary

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness;  2 Timothy 3:16  NASB Inspired – Thanks to centuries of Christian theological exposition, “inspired” today has the overtones of “certain,” “truthful,” and “definite.”  This verse from Paul’s letter to Timothy convinces most Christian conservatives that God oversees…

  • God in the Weeds

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s slave woman, from where have you come, and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”  Genesis 16:8 NASB From the presence – How easy it is to forget that Hebrew is concrete!  Removing the physical element by translating according to our social…

  • The Evil Torah

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    And I on My part gave them statutes that were not good and law through which they could not live.  And I defiled them with their gifts when they passed every womb-breach in sacrifice, so that I might desolate them, so they might know that I am the LORD.  Ezekiel 20:25-26  Robert Alter Not good…