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Sing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet
Today, in church, we sang ‘Take My Life‘, a wonderful little hymn. Given the biblical illiteracy of our day, I wondered whether one particular line might cause trouble: Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for thee. Praying for fast and pretty feet seems, well, shallow, if the biblical allusion is not [...]
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‘never make assumptions,’
we warn, showing ourselves hypocrites. Life is too complex and short for every detail to get stated explicitly, so to avoid becoming paralyzed we act on thousands of assumptions daily. Why just today I remarked on how there were no male Hebrew 101 students this year, and wondered what had happened. My Heb 102 classmate [...]
whence the philistines?
It’s an interesting question. At least I see it so. To what place in the genealogies of the Bible are the Philistines assigned? Recently I’ve been trying to memorize details from the Table of Nations, so the first place to go for understanding the biblical derivation of ethnic groups is Genesis 10:13-14: And Mizraim (Egypt) [...]
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one reason for ancient archaelogy, from a christian perspective,
is the belief that God has been acting throughout history in the various nations of the world. As it says in the book of the prophet Amos, Are ye not to me as the sons of the Kushites? O Sons of Israel, says Jehovah, Did I not bring Israel up out of the Land of [...]
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a report from palestine
A friend of mine, named Jonathan Brenneman, is a Mennonite working for a peaceful solution (very Mennonite of him, no?) to Jewish-Arab conflict in Israel/Palestine. He’s got a personal stake in this because his mother’s side of the family is Palestinian. So with no further ado, here’s a report on his work in the Middle [...]
a little hebrew spelling story
Fair warning: many of you will probably find this post completely uninteresting. Even among those of you who’ve studied a bit of Hebrew. Related Posts:Joshua, Elisha, and Jesus — God and Salvation at the TransfigurationEthnos is an appropriate word for the Church.Typos/Errors of Bullinger’s “The Companion Bible”Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1Dr. Michael [...]
is adam israel? maybe, but peter enns of biologos doesn’t do a favor to the theory
Or if I may spell it out in more clearly, is the story of Adam in the beginnings of Genesis a story of the beginning of mankind, or of Israel? Though I still think of it as a story of mankind, the BioLogos foundation is back to its job of making theology and modern scientific [...]
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population growth, exodus, and numbers
Often, people attempt to use what they call science to disprove the history in the Bible. One of the accusations concerns the rapid population growth recorded in the Bible during the Israelite sojourn in Exodus. This is the accusation: that to start with 70 Israelite men going into Egypt and end with over 2,000,000 people [...]
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living in a cage in palestine