ignorance

  • The Fool’s Errand

    being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;  Ephesians 4:17-18 NASB Ignorance – Biblical fools are not stupid.  They aren’t uninformed either.  If you thought Paul claimed that these people whose spiritual and moral sense has been dimmed, were excluded from…

  • Returning to the Vomit

    But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. Exodus 9:34 NASB Sinned again – “Although Pharaoh has said earlier that he sinned, the text has never before characterized Pharaoh’s change of mind in that way. Why, all…

  • Presumption Of Understanding

    When a person unwittingly incurs guilt in regard to any of the Lord’s commandments about things not to be done, and does one of them . . . Leviticus 4:2 Does One Of Them – Sacrifices do not atone for deliberate sins.  Punishment atones for deliberate sins.  But we need sacrifices because we still make…