Today’s Word
The Faithful Traitor
For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Romans 5:10 NASB Enemies – No one could ever have imagined such a statement. Today those who are followers of the Christ don’t give this verse…
Essential Redundancy
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Genesis 2:23 NASB Man – This is the first time in the Bible that the Hebrew word ish is used. We commonly translate this word as “man.” In…
Hillel and Yeshua
“And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Matthew 25:46 NASB Eternal life – There is no doubt that Christianity embraces a robust doctrine of the afterlife. In fact, I suspect that if you asked the common believer or non-believer about the most important teaching of the Church, it…
Giving Up, Getting Back
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days. Ecclesiastes 11:1 NASB Cast – When was the last time you threw away something important? Hopefully, you can’t think of such a foolish act. No one throws away what is valuable. If that’s the case, then why does…
Do You Think Too Much?
But, see, this I did find: God made men plain, but they have engaged in too much reasoning. Ecclesiastes 7:29 NJPS Too much reasoning – In our culture, this statement must seem nearly absurd. We laud reasoning. We extol intellect. In fact, our culture believes that the solution of every problem begins in the mind. …
WYSIWYG
What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind. Ecclesiastes 6:9 NASB What the eyes see – This verse is difficult to translate because the Hebrew text leaves a lot of ambiguity. Fox suggests, “Better the sight of the eyes than the wandering of…
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