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For Whatever Its Worth
A defense of whistlebower Bradley Manning. A really catchy anti-war song: A really catchy song about commercializing religion: Ayn Rand saying that altruism is evil (unless it’s altruism motivated by love of someone close to you). Texas prison inmate Keith Judd earns 40% of West Virginia Democratic primary votes: click here. Related Posts:Obama is Bush [...]
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Why I’m Up at Five A.M.
Thanks to the work of a fellow named Gary North, I’ve realized something. Related Posts:David Chilton’s “Paradise Restored” — A ReviewSaul Alinsky’s Thirteen RulesGary North’s “Government by Emergency” — A ReviewThe Snare of Wealth and the Barn-BuilderChristian Reconstructionism Series, Part 2: Francis Schaeffer
Remember Kent State
Link here, with a music video that’s worth listening to / watching. “If everyone shared and swallowed their pride, we’d see the day when nobody died.” Amen, Nickelback. It saddens me that it is Nickelback, and not evangelical preachers, who are the loudest voices applying the basics of Christian theology to military policy. It is [...]
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“Here I am” — Three Generations of Substitute Killings
Abraham said, “Here I am,” went to kill Isaac, and in the end killed a substitute animal (Genesis 22). Jacob said, “Here I am,” as he brought Isaac the substitute animals he had killed instead of Esau’s hunting (Genesis 27). Joseph said, “Here I am,” and was quickly sold as a slave, and his garments [...]
Two hotheaded bigamists married a woman named Adah.
Genesis 4:19 and 36:2. Coincidence? Related Posts:“Here I am” — Isaac is deceived twice about the death of a substitute.Negotiating Genesis 1:1 – A Proposed TranslationJacob was a prostitute.He will possess the gate of his enemies.David Chilton’s “Paradise Restored” — A Review
Jacob was a prostitute.
People speak sometimes about the various heroes of the faith who had unsavory pasts. Moses, they tell us, was a murderer, and David an adulterer or maybe a rapist, and Peter a lying coward, and so on. But I’ve never heard anyone before say that Jacob was a male prostitute, pimped out by one of [...]
“Here I am” — Isaac is deceived twice about the death of a substitute.
One of the fascinating things about Genesis is the way that it uses parallel language in parallel stories. For example, both trips to Gerar misidentifying a wife as a sister, followed by an explosion of anger when one person sees another m’tzacheq in relation to Isaac yitzchaq — Ishmael “jeering” in Genesis 21:19 and Isaac [...]
He will possess the gate of his enemies.
Look at the connections between these four scriptures: From Genesis 22: 15 And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven the second time, 16 and said, “‘By myself I have sworn,’ says the LORD, ‘for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your only son, 17 that in blessing [...]
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God launches an investigation.
It is hard to come up with theological statements about the nature of God which do justice to all the biblical passages about him. This is compounded by the fact that, as Isaiah puts it, his ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts — we are bound to hit only [...]
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