“At last this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.” Genesis 2:23 NASB At last this – Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik wrote, “To understand himself, man must confide in another. Only woman, who is an independent person with her own I-awareness, can liberate the…
For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. Romans 7:5 NIV Aroused by the law – Did the Law make me sin? Some might draw that conclusion when they read Paul’s difficult analogy in chapter seven of…
“‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” Revelation 21:4 NIV No more death – Are you afraid to die? Before you answer with the “hoped-for next world eternal existence of the soul” paradigm, remember that dying…
Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you. Deuteronomy 4:2 NIV Add/ Subtract – Let’s suppose that you take Moses’ command very seriously. You decide not to add a single thing to his instructions, and, of course, not to subtract anything from…
Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 NASB Image/ likeness – We have probably…
I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. John 17:15 NASB Out of the world – Why do you suppose God doesn’t rescue us? The world is a terrible place. Evil is everywhere. It would be so much better to leave it all and arrive on…
Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it; Psalm 127:1 KJV Except – In the Hebrew text, this two letter word is attached to God’s name. The expression is ‘im-YHWH. English separates what Hebrew sees as one single concept. The particle ‘im is translated according to the context. It can…
