Today’s Word

The Extended Family

“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you will be the father of a multitude of nations.”  Genesis 17:4 NASB Father – How is this promised fulfilled?  Clearly it must extend beyond the Jewish population.  Av hamon goyim means Abraham is to be father to those outside the Synagogue.  Christians have understood this…
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Apple Core

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”  Psalm 42:10 NASB Taunt – Do you bear insults to God?  Are you injured when His name is diminished?  According to the reading by Rabbi Shraga Freedman, David’s cry is in response to chillul…
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Research or Religion

By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.  Genesis 2:2  NASB Seventh – I’ve included two short articles in this study because I believe it is important to see the difference between serious scholarly approaches to the text…
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Biblical Criticism

and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the people of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.  Genesis 46:27 NASB Seventy – Recently we looked at the role of scholarly biblical criticism as a way of examining the development of our Bibles.  I though you might like…
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Copying the Bible

All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness;  2 Timothy 3:16 NASB By God – Text and transmission.  It seems as if the crucial issue about the authority of the Bible comes down to these two words.  Who wrote it and how did it come to us? …
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