Reading Aloud

בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ What verse is this?  If you read Hebrew, you will instantly know that this is Bereshit 1:1 without the diacritical (vowel and cantillation) markings.  All that you see above are the consonants.  Can you read it? Well, of course you can, if you already know how it is…

Savings Account

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;  2 Timothy 3:16  NASB Profitable – When Paul writes that the Tanakh is profitable, what does he mean?  Before we take a run at this question, we should probably remind ourselves of a few obvious things: (1) in this…

God Breathed, You Read

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;  2 Timothy 3:16 NASB Profitable– It goes without saying that Paul’s use of “Scripture” means the Tanakh.  No “letter to the Romans,” no Galatians’ missive or James’ castigations.  Just the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings.  That was…

Re – rereading

Just as it is written, “For Thy sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”  Romans 8:36 citing Psalm 44:22  NASB As it is written – What can separate us from the love of God?  If you read Paul’s argument in Romans 8, the answer…