Insult and Injury

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.  Job 1:22  NASB 1995 Nor did he blame –  But the Hebrew isn’t quite what we think of when we read these words in English.  We think of “blame” as assigning responsibility or finding fault.  So, in our Western theology, if God is…

When Is It Enough?

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

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…