The Minds of God

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:  Isaiah 1:18a  KJV Reason – Despite the later translation corrections of this Hebrew verb (yākaḥ rendered in the NASB as “debate” and in the NIV as “settle”), most believers of a certain age recall this verse in its King James vernacular, “let us reasontogether.”  We won’t…

Okay, Now What?

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will also be like him.  Answer a fool as his folly deserves, that he not be wise in his own eyes.  Proverbs 26:4-5  NASB 1995 Do not answer/ answer – Proverbs is instruction in piety.  It’s practical.  It’s didactic.  It’s anthropological (human) rather than divine.  “Live…

Clarity

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.  Romans 7:15 NASB I do not understand – Was Paul confused? When he writes, “I do not understand,” does he really mean “What I’m doing makes no sense to me,” or…