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On the Values of Silicon Valley

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people; and you are not to [a]jeopardize the [b]life of your neighbor. I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:16 NASB Slanderer – Leviticus 19:16 is the foundation for the prohibition against lashon hara.  What is lashon hara?  “Lashon Hara is any derogatory or damaging statement against an individual. In Hilchot Deot 7:5,…
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Biblical Politics

Do not trust in noblemen, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.  His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.  Psalm 146:3-4  NASB Nobleman – The world is continuously more and more interconnected.  Two years of pandemic disruption could hardly be better evidence.  Our lives are intertwined with many, many others, most of…
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Text and Transmission

You shall also speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear the responsibility for his sin.   Leviticus 24:15  NASB Anyone – The more you look, the more complicated it becomes.  That’s how I feel after a few decades of investigating the issue of textual transmission.  When I first became…
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Biblical Haiku

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:  Ecclesiastes 3:1  KJV A time – How do you read the Bible?  Perhaps that question is far too broad.  What I want to ask is this: What lens do you use when you’re reading the Bible?  Do you read…
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Can’t We Just Talk About It?

They quickly forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but craved intensely in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.  Psalm 106:13-14  NASB 1995 Quickly forgot – māhar šokḥu reads the Hebrew text, but it is hyperbole.  Clearly Israel didn’t forget the works of YHVH overnight.  It took decades for the…
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The Disconnection Paradox

I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.  John 15:5  NASB Apart from me – On the surface, Yeshua’s claim seems patently false.  Just look around.  Men have accomplished amazing things apparently without any…
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