I Just Can’t Imagine

How has the faithful town become a whore?  Filled with justice where righteousness did lodge,  and now—murderers.  Isaiah 1:21  Robert Alter How – אֵיכָכָה (ʾêkākâh) how?  There doesn’t appear to be anything remarkable about this, right?  It’s just an interrogative.  After all God’s pleading with Israel, it doesn’t seem strange to ask how all this…

The Why of How

“How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” John 4:9 NASB How? – The Greek is the pos, a word that introduces a question. This is a particularly interesting question. It contains many of the implications about spiritual truths that we face today. It…

A Soft Heart

And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.  Romans 8:26  NASB How – Not quite right.  This translation in the NASB isn’t quite what Paul is saying.  Your…

Crossing the Boundaries

“How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?”  John 4:9  NASB How? –  The Greek word pos introduces a question.  This is a particularly interesting question.  It contains many of the implications about communal truths that we face today. It is a question of…

What God Can’t Do

“How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? Hosea 11:8 How –  In systematic theology, we often speak of God’s omnipotence.  It is simply the doctrine that God can do anything that can be done.  But did you know there are some things even…