Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Native Tongue – The Language of Yeshua

    Taking the child by the hand, He *said to her, “Talitha kum!” (which translated means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).  Mark 5:41  NASB Talitha kum – What was the native tongue of Yeshua and why does it matter? The common understanding and teaching of most theological schools of the West is that “Jesus” spoke Aramaic, not…

  • Mountain Man

    Well, just in case you’ve been wondering what we’ve been doing while we can’t travel outside of Italy, here we are at Seceda in the Italian Alps.  Oh, and it starting raining the next day–and the next–and the next until we gave up and came back to Parma.  But as you can imagine, I’ll be…

  • The Uncreation

    God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Genesis 1:31  NASB All that He had made – Gutenberg destroyed the Bible.  Oh, yes, he printed it in German, but in the process he forever changed that way we understand the…

  • A Reader’s Request

    One of my faithful supporters asked if I could send this again after the similar theme in the last couple of days, so here it is: Back to the Golden Calf By Skip Moen, Ph.D. / May 3, 2017 So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked of…

  • Andralamousia

    The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Genesis 6:6 NASB Grieved – We’ve explored the theological bias that treats this verse as anthropomorphic.  Hopefully, that’s settled.  God really does feel.  When the verb ʿāṣab is used to describe God’s reaction to the corruption of creation, the…

  • Underworld

    Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  Genesis 2:9  NASB In the midst – (This article was first published on 10 April 2016)…

  • Under Covers

    casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.  1 Peter 5:7  NASB Anxiety – “Of course I know I’m dreaming,” I said to myself in my dream.  But it didn’t help.  The spectre of imminent injury was still there.  In fact, intensified.  Yes, I knew it was a dream but it was a…

  • Hidden Contradictions?

    who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”  Exodus 34:7  NASB No means leave the guilty unpunished – Exodus 34:6-7 is one of the most important passages in the…