Can’t We Just Talk About It?

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

They quickly forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but craved intensely in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.  Psalm 106:13-14  NASB 1995 Quickly forgot – māhar šokḥu reads the Hebrew text, but it is hyperbole.  Clearly Israel didn’t forget the works of YHVH overnight.  It took decades for the…

Biblical Nihilism

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For man is born for trouble, as sparks fly upward.  Job 5:7  NASB Born for trouble – Nihilism: “the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.”  Or so it seems. “Not to be born is the best of all things for those who live on earth,
and not to gaze on the radiance of the…