Today’s Word

Paradigm Blindness

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father.”  Matthew 24:36  NIV No one knows – Theological paradigms are just as resistant to challenge as any other paradigm, perhaps even more so.  In the history of science we often find great thinkers making…
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Immortality

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”  Genesis 3:22 NASB Live forever – “But two horrible fears haunt man steadily, trailing him like an everlasting shadow: the…
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It Isn’t et

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”  Genesis 2:16-17  NASB The man – I’ve put “the man” in bold to call your…
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Loneliness

“At last this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.”  Genesis 2:23 NASB At last this – Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik wrote, “To understand himself, man must confide in another.  Only woman, who is an independent person with her own I-awareness, can liberate the…
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John and Jeremiah’s Scribe

Afterwards she appeared on earth and lived with humankind.  Baruch 3:37 NRSV She – It’s likely that you’ve never read Baruch (sometimes referred to as 1 Baruch).  It’s a book in the Catholic and Greek orthodox Apocrypha, termed deuterocanonical, that is, considered canonical books of the Old Testament by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Assyrian, and others…
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