Category Archives: bible
e-sword is dead
You heard it here first, folks. E-Sword is dead. It is a great program, and still my primary bibleware, but the handwriting is on the wall. Its updating is clunky. Its website is unresponsive to bug reports. It often fails to cite sources for its data. It fails to conform to open software standards. My [...]
navpress, bible memorization, the word of god, and christian jargon
It is only in the last year or so that I’ve made any real effort at memorizing parts of the bible word for word, and this thanks to the gentle urging of a brother in Christ. I’ve been adapting for my own use a system produced by NavPress, which he recommended. It consists of little [...]
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all the places in the bible where the phrase “word of god” appears
This post is part of an effort to demonstrate that the phrase “word of God” is not always and automatically equivalent to “the Bible”. You can demonstrate this for yourself by taking a few of the following passages, substituting “Bible” for “word of God” and seeing whether the verse isn’t mangled. Related Posts:on ‘rules for [...]
2 thessalonians 3 and the emerging christian movement
And by “emerging Christian movement,” I speak not of the “Emerging/Emergent Church” movement of today but rather the original Christian movement while it was first emerging, during the period of Paul’s letters. Related Posts:didache tuesdaySing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet assumptions as they currently standabout the biblethe single foundational truth of christianity
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the kjv is cooler than the nrsv . . .
And as proof, take a look at the KJV’s 46th Psalm. Counting the 46th word from the front and back will reveal that: Related Posts:. . . but the nrsv’s better translated.be still!robinson and pierpont, collated against the kjv, post 9purchase 2names of isaac’s mother in the septuagint
i’m going to try this
And by “this” I mean this. I’ll let you know how it goes. Related Posts:No Related Posts
was job a real person?
That’s the title of Jeff Oien’s recent post. In it he decides that on the basis of Ezekiel 14:14 that Job was “of course” a real person. Critics would respond with the argument that Job is simply a parabolic figure and he’s being used here as a symbol of righteousness in a hypothetical and impossible [...]
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fissiparous
Fissiparous: tending to break into smaller and smaller divisions. Example: It seems to be the case that the more that you insist that you are based on the Bible, the more fissiparous you become; the church splits up into more and more little groups, each thinking that they have got biblical truth right. — N. [...]
job 3:2 — shortest verse of the bible?
Nope. The NIV reads “He said” in Job 3:2, which is shorter than the traditionally shortest “Jesus wept” of John 11:35. However, “He said” is shortened by translators from the literal, “And Job answered and said,” so I’d say Job 3:2 is disqualified on the basis of paraphrase. “Jesus wept,” on the other hand, is [...]
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whence the philistines?