Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Torah and the Atheist

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 1 Corinthians 2:14  NASB Natural man – The psychikós ánthrōpos (natural man).  The man who does not accept the things of the spirit of God.  Who is this natural…

  • It’s Later Than I Thought

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    (A politically-incorrect evaluation) I thought it wouldn’t happen until my grandchildren had to deal with it.  I thought I had time.  My children might notice real differences, but the truly horrible impact would be later. I was wrong. Since the first time I visited South Africa, I would tell my American acquaintances that if they…

  • Symptoms

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?  Jeremiah 17:9  NASB Desperately sick – You probably thought this verse was about the propensity of human beings to sin.  You might have been taught that we have this terrible, fatal illness called disobedience.  It really doesn’t matter at this point whether…

  • DOA

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death.” John 8:51  NASB Never see death – How can these words of Yeshua possibly be true, especially 2000 years later?  He died.  Everyone who heard the words died.  Everyone ever since has died.  Was he just a deluded apocalyptic prophet who…

  • Conduct Unbecoming

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,  1 Corinthians 1:23  NASB Stumbling Block – You certainly know that Paul’s choice of the Greek is a bit more outrageous than the typical translation, “stumbling block.”  The Greek is skándalon.  You can immediately see the English derivative, “scandal.”  We choose “stumbling block” because…

  • Sacrifice

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    To do righteousness and justice is desired by the Lord more than sacrifice. Proverbs 21:3  NASB Righteousness and justice – Jewish religion in the Old Testament (yes, I know that’s a Christian denotation) is all about sacrifice, right?  At least that’s what most of us were taught (along with the classification “Old” Testament).  And sacrifices—all that killing and blood…