Prayer Wheel

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

In the beginning, God . . .”  Genesis 1:1a  NASB God – How do you read those first words of the Tanakh?  In Hebrew, berēʾšît bārāʾ ʾĕlōhîm.  Most modern Westerners imagine that this is the opening statement of a cosmology, that is, a pre-scientific story of origins.  Creationism proceeds from this assumption to propose an…

Humiliating God

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the shame of Egypt from you.” So the name of that place is called [a]Gilgal to this day.  Joshua 5:9  NASB Shame – Recently we investigated the two Hebrew words, ḥerpâ (reproach) and gālal (to roll away).  We discovered that the request to circumcise the male population a…