Legislated Morality

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.  Philemon 1:14  NASB By compulsion – It doesn’t work, does it?  Legislated morality, I mean.  No matter how many laws or how many threats and punishments, you simply…

Food Poisoning

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“A lion roars.  Who does not fear?  The Master, the LORD, speaks.  Who cannot prophesy?”  Amos 3:8  Robert Alter translation Prophesy – Does this two-line poem seem odd to you?  What does the roar of a lion have to do with giving divine predictions?  Before we can draw conclusions about Amos’ intention, we need to…