Hillel and Yeshua

“And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”  Matthew 25:46  NASB Eternal life – There is no doubt that Christianity embraces a robust doctrine of the afterlife.  In fact, I suspect that if you asked the common believer or non-believer about the most important teaching of the Church, it…

Provoked to Jealousy

if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow-countrymen and save some of them.  Romans 11:14  NASB Move – What have we done?  That ought to be the paramount question for our time.  I don’t mean what have we done to human dignity, social engineering, planetary capitalism, and the suicide of integrity.  I mean what…

The Chicken or the Egg

“and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”  Matthew 6:12  NASB Have forgiven – Read this carefully.  Most of us learned this verse, and the prayer, in some version of the King James.  Unfortunately, the King James didn’t make the tense of the verb very clear.  “As we forgive” (KJV) could…