Hell on Earth

Let the waters’ current not sweep me away and let not the deep swallow me and let the Pit not close its mouth on me. Psalm 69:16 [Hebrew Bible]  Robert Alter The Pit – Think of Beersheba.  The well of seven.  bĕʾēr, the Hebrew word for well or pit, is used in Genesis 16:14 in…

The Necessity of Despair (December 7  2018)   

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,  Psalm 88:4  NASB Down to the pit – “Modern man’s greatest fault, Kierkegaard maintains, is his total self-reliance.  It is his nineteenth-century delusion that he has progressed beyond his ancestors.  This conceit derives from egotism.  There is but…

The Necessity of Despair

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,  Psalm 88:4  NASB Down to the pit– “Modern man’s greatest fault, Kierkegaard maintains, is his total self-reliance.  It is his nineteenth-century delusion that he has progressed beyond his ancestors.  This conceit derives from egotism.  There is but one…

Spiritual Dungeons

To you I will cry, YHWH my rock.  Do not be silent to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit. Psalm 28:1 Pit – When God does not speak, I exist in a spiritual dungeon.  It takes some deliberate concentration to discover this reality,…

Theology of the Ditch

“What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it an lift it out?” Matthew 12:11 Pit – Jesus gave us the proper perspective on theology when he asked the Pharisees about the fate of an animal that…