Many in today’s world want to believe that truth is relative. You’ll hear them say, “What’s true for you isn’t necessarily true for me.” In the case of taste, that statement may apply. You might love coconut, hard rock music, and skinny jeans ; I do not. And that should ...
They are the ultimate determinants of both near-term action and long-term goals, toward which reason finds a path as a servant not a master. But they lie all at the level of genetics, beneath culture and beyond our control; nor is it ever proposed, to the contrary, that Man is in ...
“Last year, we decided to take a big bet on live — tapping into massive fandoms across comedy, reality TV, sports and more,” Bela Bajaria, Netflix chief content officer, said in a statement explaining the decision. Notably absent from Bajaria’s statement and the company’s programming s...
Imputation & Atonement –Leviticus 7:18 teaches that a person’s sins could be charged to the account of an animal that was properly sacrificed burned; then that person’s account received a credit. Isaiah 53:6–12 records that people’s sins would be placed on the suffering servant for hi...
Sure, a ruler important enough to be called Son of God would be born in a fancy palace of high-born parents. Yet this Jesus, Son of God is born perhaps in a shed or cave – and what is more born to an unmarried teenage servant girl. Shortly after the birth we learn that Mary and...
The assertion "Light is near" is a statement of false hope or denial of reality. The Hebrew word for "light" is "אוֹר" (or), which typically represents life, prosperity, and divine presence. Job's friends, in their attempts to comfort him, offer platitudes that fail to ackno...
God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. (ESV) Arguments breed quarrels. God’s servant must not be quarrelsome. We must be gentle, and kind. We should teach instead of attacking people who disagree with us. Paul advises that we should be teachable when ...
Woman as wife-man, woman as female servant. The history of woman, impossible to disentangle from the history of wife, she becomes an “adult human female,” by being in relation to man. She becomes his relative: wife, daughter, mother, sister. Not herself, by definition. Man = universal...
If I have heard it once I have heard it a thousand times when Christians are evangelizing the lost they tell them to “Ask Jesus into their heart”. I want to state right from the start that THIS STATEMENT SAVES NO – ONE and I am going to show you why it doesn’t. I have debate...
2) A false oath (Exodus 20:7). 3) A testimonial oath, which is not mentioned directly in the Torah but is exegetically derived from Leviticus 5:1. 4) An oath which a guardian takes with regards to something depos- ited in his hands (Leviticus 5:21-22). In the first Mishnah ...