The Bible at Large – Rewind

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 NASB Word – Western paradigms focus on answers.  Experience is reduced to principles in order that we may predict and control.  In fact, the entire enterprise of science, a principal characteristic of the Western mind, is an effort to…

Believing Without the Book

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.  Isaiah 40:8  NASB Word of our God – Yesterday we discovered the awful truth that there was no such thing as “the Bible” until the Christian Church, and particularly the Protestant Christian Church, created a sacred book.  In the first century,…

Bursting the Bubble

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.  Isaiah 40:8  NASB Word of our God – The Foreword to the New American Standard Bible (1995) reads as follows: The New American Standard Bible has been produced with the conviction that the words of Scripture as originally penned in the…

Translations

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8  NASB Stands forever – If Isaiah is right, then one of the really important questions is, “What does God’s word say?”  What are these words that will stand forever?  For the answer we turn to the Bible.  Well, actually, we…

The Bible as Encounter

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 NASB Word – Yesterday we considered the possibility that the Bible is not like books written from a Western point of view. Yesterday we suggested that the Bible is a book about experiences with the holy God of Israel,…

The Bible at Large

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 NASB Word – Western paradigms focus on answers. Experience is reduced to principles in order that we may predict and control. In fact, the entire enterprise of science, a principal characteristic of the Western mind, is an effort to…

Word Work

But the word of the Lord abides forever.  1 Peter 1:25 and Isaiah 40:8  NASB Word – Since this New Testament reference is a quotation from an Old Testament verse, we can look at both the Greek and the Hebrew.  The Greek word is rhema.  The Hebrew word is dabar.  Both words mean “to speak,…