Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Ignorance Is No Excuse

    The Lord spoke To Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a person unwittingly incurs guilt in regard to any of the Lord’s commandments about things not to be done and does one of them–  Leviticus 4:1-2 JPS Unwittingly incurs guilt – “But I didn’t know!”  We’d like to believe that this justification…

  • When Is a Curse Invalid?

    At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: ‘At the cost of his firstborn son  he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest   he will set up its gates.’”  Joshua 6:26  NIV Solemn oath – Who is involved in this oath is…

  • Paradigm Blindness

    “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father.”  Matthew 24:36  NIV No one knows – Theological paradigms are just as resistant to challenge as any other paradigm, perhaps even more so.  In the history of science we often find great thinkers making…

  • Immortality

    Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”  Genesis 3:22 NASB Live forever – “But two horrible fears haunt man steadily, trailing him like an everlasting shadow: the…

  • It Isn’t et

    The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”  Genesis 2:16-17  NASB The man – I’ve put “the man” in bold to call your…

  • Loneliness

    “At last this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.”  Genesis 2:23 NASB At last this – Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik wrote, “To understand himself, man must confide in another.  Only woman, who is an independent person with her own I-awareness, can liberate the…