Today’s Word
The Sage from Galilee (rewind)
“You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not commit murder; . . .’” Matthew 5:21 NASB You have heard – Judaism rejects Jesus, but not because of his claim to be the Messiah. Judaism rejects Jesus because Jews believe that Jesus rejected Torah. Since Torah is the fundamental and unalterable basis of…
Conformity (The End of the Empire 6)
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you also were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. Ephesians 4:4-6 NASB One faith – Theological orthodoxy contributed to the collapse of Roman civilization. In this respect,…
Multiculturalism (The End of the Empire 5)
and when the Lord your God turns them over to you and you defeat them, you shall utterly destroy them. You shall not make a covenant with them nor be gracious to them. Deuteronomy 7:2 NASB Utterly Destroy – Diversity is a good thing, right? How wonderful it is to be able to get a great Italian meal in Naples,…
Reasonable (The End of the Empire 4)
“Come now, and let us debate your case,” says the Lord, “though your sins are as scarlet, they shall become as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. Isaiah 1:18 NASB Debate – You are probably most familiar with the King James version, “Come, let us reason together.” The Hebrew verb…
Why WOKE Works (The End of the Empire 3)
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:25 ESV Naked – In the last 200 years of the great Portuguese Empire, Portugal imported nearly 6 million African slaves to its territories in the New World. The British and the Portuguese accounted for nearly 70% of all trans-Atlantic slavery. …
Original Sex (The End of the Empire 2)
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:25 ESV Naked – While Jewish thought pays fairly little attention to the claim that the original couple were naked, Christian thinking has used this innocent passage to create an entire sexually-oriented prohibitive theology that, as I will attempt to show,…
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