Today’s Word
Tolerance with a Vengeance
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, to meet Israel in battle in order that he might utterly destroy them, that they might receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. Joshua 11:20 NASB Utterly destroy – Verses like this generated the liberal view that the God of the…
Progressive Revelation (2)
“Now it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath, but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God, and with those who are not with us here today. Deuteronomy 29:14-15 NASB Not with us – Yesterday we explored the idea of revelation and canonization. We discovered that…
Progressive Revelation (1)
“Now it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath, but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God, and with those who are not with us here today. Deuteronomy 29:14-15 NASB Not with us – Does God speak to us today? Oh, I don’t mean, “Do you…
What Can’t Be Understood
Knowledge is too wonderous for me, high above—I cannot attain it. Psalm 139:6 Robert Alter Too wonderous – The translators have taken a bit of poetic license here by rendering pilʾîy-yah with the superlative “too.” The verb is simply pālāʾ, that is, “be marvelous, wonderful.” In the derivative, pilʾî, it means “wonderful, incomprehensible,” but as…
Transcendental Texts
I will not act in My blazing wrath, I will no more destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I do not desire to root out. Hosea 11:9 Robert Alter Not a man – Christian theology employs texts like this one to support its view…
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