” There were a particular group of people in scripture who also continually strove for excellence. The trouble was, they kept moving the bar in the wrong direction, and, when they cleared the lowered standard, proclaimed themselves righteous. They were even pretty good at convincing others as ...
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one...
Therefore, it appears that Josephus was importing a common cultural trope into his interpretation of scripture. It is likely that this cultural trope would have been known to Paul’s audience in Ephesus as well. Similarly, the belief that the first born (or in this case, formed) is the mos...
one of the Unification Church’s major holy days. My wife found a suitable quote about parents from the Quran (in World Scripture, a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts) and wrote it on the chalkboard in our dining room:
How dare you quote scripture over a TV channel.. Simon Jester October 26, 2021 at 9:16 PM The Bible also says that touching the skin of a dead pig makes you unclean (Leviticus 11:7-8), so I assume we also don’t need any football on television? Or are you just a hypocri...
in the name of God. His faith was further compromised when reports of sexual molestation in the church started to spread like wildfire, when one high-profile religious leader after another was shamed by public scandal, and when he began to question the historical veracity of the scripture. ...
2) Consumerism: My greatest fear about family ministry is we package them as commodities that will fix families and make them happier, more virtuous, and godlier. Those are all fantastic goals. However, I don’t see those families in scripture. What I see, particularly in the book of Gene...