“The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 NASB More deceitful– Just how sick are you? Pretty sick, if you read this verse from Jeremiah as it is typically understood in Christian theology. Many theologians teach that there’s a fatal flaw in human beings. We all have a bad heart,…
Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars. Hosea 10:2 NASB Faithless – “Faithless” is a nice abstract noun. What exactly does it mean? The NIV gloss “deceitful” isn’t much better. Both attempts are really paraphrases of the Hebrew word halaq. …
The heart is the most deceitful of all things, and it is desperately sick. Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 Deceitful – I have been reading Oswald Chambers for fourteen years. It amazes me that I can read the same page year after year and find something new there each time. Perhaps it is a…
