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Essence and Attribute

My strength and song is God, and this is my deliverance; This is my God, I will enshrine Him, My father’s God, I will exalt Him.  Exodus 15:2  Aryeh Kaplan Is God – The NASB translates the opening of Moses’ song like this: “The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation.”  The…
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All Saints Day

To the [a]saints and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ who are at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.  Colossians 1:2  NASB Saints – You know, some people just have a deeper spiritual connection than most of us.  God seems to be more present to them.  That’s why we call them saints, right?  In fact, if they…
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Time Will Tell

How long, O LORD, will You forget me always?  How long hide Your face from me?  How long shall I cast about for counsel, sorrow in my heart all day?  How long will my enemy loom over me?  Psalm 13:2-3 [Hebrew]  Robert Alter How long? – We covered the Hebrew intensity of this phrase nearly…
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What World?

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.  Romans 12:2  NASB This world – Paul strictly instructs followers of the Messiah to resist conformity to the patterns of this world,…
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Paul’s Paradigm

For I handed down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,  1 Corinthians 15:3  NASB According to the Scriptures – Paul has a problem, or at least we think he does if we read this verse from a Christian perspective.  Why?  Because, as Adam Clarke…
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In Celebration of Heresy

I and the Father are [a]one.”  John 10:30  NASB One – The Trinity.  A doctrine that divided Christianity—not only from Judaism but from itself.  In the early centuries of Christian development, the split over the proclaimed divinity of Christ broke the Christian world in two.  Arius and Athanasius.  It wasn’t a happy separation.  Accomplished by murder,…
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