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  • Look Who’s Talking

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded, “If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient?  But who can refrain [a]from speaking?  Job 4:1-2  NASB Eliphaz – It’s always important to know the meaning of the names in a biblical story.  Here the name of the speaker is Eliphaz (אֱלִיפַז), a combination of God’s shortened title and…

  • The Impassible God

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Genesis 6:6 NASB Grieved – Does God cry? Is He distressed about our condition? Does He lament His decision to create this very broken world? Theologians struggled with these questions, not because the Scripture is ambiguous….