Cultural Grammar – Rewind

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.  Genesis 4:26  ESV Name – Explain the grammatical connections and implications of calling someone’s name.  Let’s see.  In English (and also in Greek and most Indo-European languages), a name is a phonetic marker that represents some entity.  More importantly, it is an…

Where God Isn’t

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.   Psalm 139:8 NASB Behold– We’ve looked at this verse several times.[1]Our previous investigations concentrated on the use of She’ol and its distinction from the contemporary idea of Hell.  But this time we’ll look at the tone of the verse,…