Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Israel Pictures Again

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Apparently I messed up with the gallery of pictures from Israel.  I meant to set up a gallery where you could enlarge the picture by clicking on it, but it did not work for some people.  So I am posting them again.  

  • Zekhut

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’” Matthew 25:40 NASB The least – Benevolence toward others without any expectation of gain.  That’s the idea. …

  • Sin’s Opposite

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do, and does not do it, to him it is sin.  James 4:17 NASB Right thing – Two factors are immediately apparent from James’ statement.  First, sin attaches to what I know, not what I don’t know.  And second, if I know what is the right…

  • Rabbi Paul

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    for not the hearers of the Law are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.  Romans 2:13 NASB Will be justified – It’s hard to escape the obvious implication of Paul’s statement.  What matters is doing Torah.  Anything less means exclusion from the Kingdom.  Paul’s words are a fatal blow…

  • Pattern Paradigms

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  Mark 1:1  NASB Son of God – “What the sages have done with Scripture then becomes clear.  They have taken its narrative and discerned a pattern within it, and this pattern then has guided them in thinking about the present.  Whatever happens finds…

  • Concluding Postscript

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.   For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you have destroyed all those who go astray from you.  Psalm 73:26-27  Hebrew World translation Have destroyed – Justice will prevail.  Oh, we like the sound…

  • The Five Words

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Whom have I in heaven but You?  And beside You, I desire nothing on earth.  Psalm 73:25  NASB Desire – A lot gets added in translation to fill in Asaph’s blurted exclamation.  In Hebrew, the text literally reads, “Who in heaven? I do not desire in earth.”  NASB, ESV, NIV and others add conjunctions, pronouns…