La Creación Invertida

Cuando la mujer vio que el árbol era bueno para comer, y que era agradable a los ojos, y que el árbol era deseable para alcanzar sabiduría, tomó de su fruto y comió. También dio a su marido que estaba con ella, y él comió. Génesis 3:6 Bueno – Dios ordenó la creación. Eso significa…

Creation Reversed

and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate  Genesis 3:6 Good – God ordered creation.  That means that God put borders around every part of creation…

Are You Experienced?

Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. Romans 7:13 Utterly Sinful – How…

The Authorized Summary

This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living words to give to us. Acts 7:38 Living Words – Stephen’s speech got him killed. In it, he summarizes the entire history of God’s interaction with…

The Way

You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever. Psalm 16:11 Path of Life – The Hebrew expression, orach chayim, combines two words, orach (meaning pathway) and chayyah (meaning living thing).  David says that God Himself will teach him…

Changing Vowels

The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tablets.  Exodus 32:16 Graven – One of the reasons we read the sages is to discover the insights about God’s Word that come from centuries of exploration.  Often we find something that we would have passed by…

The Logical Implication

  “therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things, and do not do them.”  Matthew 23:3 All – David called YHWH Lord.  King David put himself under the rule of his God, proclaiming that he was the slave of his Master.  Because…

Talmud Perspective

The word of the Lord is tried  Psalm 18:30 Tried – Christians have suffered for lack of knowledge.  Long ago, our faith was dislodged from its Hebraic roots and cut off from the history of interpretation that followed the Jewish path.  By the end of the third century, Christianity trod the road of Greek metaphysics,…

St. Francis of Assisi

Having thus a fond affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.  1 Thessalonians 2:8 (NASB) Our Own Lives – “Preach the gospel at all times, and when necessary use words.”  St. Francis got it…

Stinks To High Heaven

He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, even his prayer is an abomination.  Proverbs 28:9 Abomination – The Hebrew principle of measure for measure applies to a lot more than eyes and teeth.  Waltke points out that “if a man, on his part, is deaf to instruction, then God, on His…