No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. John 1:18 NASB Explained– First, let’s deal with some punctuation. There isn’t any in the Greek text, so we find some English variation when the translators construct the sentence. In the ESV, this reads: “No one…
If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of…
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 12:4 NASB Rottenness– Why does the Bible seem to focus on the potential damage to the husband’s reputation? Why are there no comparable verses about the harm inflicted on women? For example, the infamous passage in Numbers about a…
So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years. Genesis 29:30 ESV More than– Why does Jacob love Rachel more than Leah? Leah is devoted to Jacob. Leah gives Jacob many sons so obviously he didn’t maintain sexual distance from her. Leah pleads for his…
And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”Matthew 13:10 NASB Parables– Let’s consider the biblical approach of communication. Why doesn’t the Bible just give us a list of rules or a well-organized theology? Why does it sort of ramble around, throwing in parts of different genres of…
But Joseph had recognized his brothers, although they did not recognize him. Genesis 42:8 NASB Recognized– Moshe Luzzatto points out self-awareness is a function of our interaction with others. We, in fact, owe others for our very existence as psychological selves. According to Luzzatto, this is an infinite debt. After all, it constitutes what we know as life…
The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Brought– When I wrote Guardian Angel, I thought the title would be The Perfect Enemy. My thinking was this: God brings into the lives of husbands precisely those wives who act as polishing stones, grinding away…
He came to [b]a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place. Genesis 28:11 NASB A certain place– Do you read the footnotes? Or do you think, “Well, those are just references or…
On February 2 at 4 in the morning, Rosanne’s mother, Frances Lamacchia, died. We are working our way through this now. The family will gather in the next few days. Rosanne has four brothers and sisters. The funeral will be in Syracuse, NY. Her mother was 89 and suffered from diabetes and congestive heart failure….
and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, “I know,” he cannot discover. Ecclesiastes 8:17 NASB Cannot discover– “No longer one simple, consequential story, history divides into the age…
