Over the years, I have sought to make the point that deception is to lying and bearing false witness what killing is to murder. All murder is killing but not all killing is murder. Murder is prohibited ...
David and Deception
Denhollender and David, and the Question of Rape
https://twitter.com/terrigreenusa/status/1546281243435843584?s=21&t=c5TA2Qyo18NPzGMiAcVO_Q Introduction: So another tempest has arisen, again, and it is once more over whether King ...
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Pride and Paddywonking
Introduction: I didn't make the meme myself. Had I done so, I would have said "run" instead of "ran," but other than that, the reasoning is impeccable. A recent trend in some parenting circles ...
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Felix Maxima Culpa
One of the things that theologians have been discussing for centuries is the question of whether or not the incarnation would have happened anyway had mankind not fallen. Summed up, the question is incarnation ...
The Nephilim, Hades, and Other Oddments
Introduction: The first thing to get out of the way is why I might want to address this subject at all. Don't we have bigger fish to fry? Well, yes, we do, and they are all Nephilim fish. That's why ...
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The Rope and the Needle
For the Bible Reading Challenge this summer, I decided to read George Lamsa's translation of the New Testament—meaning a translation into English from an early Aramaic version. And for the most part, ...
Special Providence and the Problem of Answered Prayer
Introduction: One of the problems associated with being a cessationist is that people think that you must hold the idea, as the firmest of doctrines, that the Holy Spirit no longer does anything ...
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Scattered and Gathered Both
The prophet Zechariah predicted that when the shepherd was struck, the sheep would be scattered (Zech. 13:7). And the gospel writers record that this was in fact fulfilled when Jesus was arrested, tried, and killed. His disciples scattered (Matt. 26:31; Mark 14: 27). But there was more to it. When the shepherd was struck, in …
Unbelief and Pumpkin Pie
So we have come to Thanksgiving 2017, year of our Lord. On the one hand, we have an enormous amount to be grateful for. Things are still relatively stable. We were able to buy the turkey at CostCo with little difficulty. On the way home, the traffic lights were all still working. The roads were …
On Bear-Hugging Our Troubles
Job tells us that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward (Job 5:7). But there are different kinds of trouble, different kinds of adversity, different kinds of affliction. First there is the kind that we pull down onto our own heads. “For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: And …