The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Matthew 1:1 NASB Record – The Jews invented history. Most people don’t realize this. They think history has always been part of the human way of thinking. But they are wrong. Eliade has conclusively shown that virtually all…
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one with his household: Exodus 1:1 NASB Names – The Bible is not a timeless guidebook. It is a story of the history of men and God. It is a recollection of what happened, not a…
You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Deuteronomy 4:2 NASB Add/take away – “Finally, there came a movement that made our lives bitter with all the methods it took over…
Look to the pact, for the dark places of earth fill with groans of outrage. Psalm 74:20 (R. Alter translation) Fill – Asaph’s psalm of despair reads like today’s newspaper for followers of YHWH. He cried out, “Why, O God, have You abandoned us forever?” He describes the insults to God’s own name perpetrated by…
And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV Have not – How we agonize over this verse! Paraded before the cringing audience in the pews, preachers hammer believers for…
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. Colossians 2:8 ESV Philosophy – Paul warns us about the enticement of philosophy, but we seem to have completely ignored his alarm. I don’t…
In the days of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest . . . Luke 1:5 NASB In the days of – Is your faith based in God’s acts in history or does it rest on your experience with God today? Maybe that isn’t a fair question since it supposes a dichotomy that…
And these are the generations of Terah: Genesis 11:27 (translation J. Green) These are the generations – We are familiar with the Hebrew term toledoth, in this verse, e’le toldoth. We investigated the problem with the spelling of this word. We’ve noted that the toledoth pattern is the structural framework of Genesis and the deliberate…
I YHWH and none else, forming light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil – I YHWH do all these things. Isaiah 45:6-7 (translation: M. Buber) Creating – Where did evil come from? Such a simple question. Such an enormously difficult answer, if there even is an answer. One of the greatest impediments to…
and all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia: Galatians 1:2 Churches – When you read the Bible, do you pay attention to the proper context, culture and historical circumstances behind the text? Or do you read the Bible as if it was written for you yesterday? This is not a…
