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The letter J and its sound originated sometime in the mid 1500's. If you called out the name, JESUS, in a crowd during his lifetime in Judah, he wouldn't have turned around to look. The derivation of the name, Joshua is mentioned in Numbers 13:16 אֵ֚לֶּה שְׁמֹ֣ות הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַ֥ח...

Grumbling... and thinking of you as I'm reading a philosophy text this morning rather than working on next Sunday's lesson. A rather light introduction to Philosophy that I picked up in February and put on my TBR pile. Dolores G. Morris, Believing Philosophy, A Guide to Becoming a Christian...

A recent thread referred to a passage in the epistle to the Hebrews. Hebrews 12:14–15 (AV 1873) Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you...

In Hebrew, almost every word is gendered. Most of the gendering is filtered out in our English translations but English too has its own peculiar ways with gender. So I believe that it's important to refine the way gender is communicated in Scripture. The preface to the JPS TANAKH -...

I don't have many books of the subject of free will but about half of them are non-religious philosophy - boring as all get-out! When I want to frustrate myself I'll pick one up and browse the pages. One of the most helpful books I enjoy is Scott Christensen's, "What about Free Will?" (the...

No waiting, the Scriptures already accommodate the trans-gender. There's nothing new under the sun. In Matthew 19:12, Jesus says: For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs...

So the question stands: Does God control our response? Scripture is somewhat vague: Sometimes God chooses the person and divinely directs a response, I think of the heathen, Abram (Joshua 24:2). Other times the response seems to flow from reasoning within the person: Rahab (Joshua 2:11). Why...

Translations are made to transfer meaning. If the translation fails to communicate the original meaning, or even misleads readers, it fails as a translation. Gender neutral fails because it imposes a modern agenda, However there is a place for a text being gender-sensitive, How many times does...

As I stated, there's a dilemma, a tension; a balance between dominion and determinism. We cannot love God, without him first revealing himself to us. Simply stated, 'We love because he first loved us' (1 John 4:19). God's presence, his 'wonderful and mighty works' which he abundantly displays...

Strong’s Concordance lists the ways a Greek word is used in the KJV. Strong’s doesn’t work well with other Bible versions because it lists how the translators of the KJV render the Greek word. Other versions may translate the same Greek word differently. Strong’s IS.NOT a lexicon. A LEXICON is...

Theology dilemma: If the desire to love God is given to a person by an act of God's sovereignty, is it really love? We view genuine love as a voluntary act rather than something pre-determined by a forced congruence: they only love God because that's the way God made them. Rob

Regarding gender inclusive versions, I encourage you read the preface to the recently published JPS TANAKH - Gender Sensitive version. It’s freely available online. I realize that the Hebrew and Greek languages approach gender quite differently. The same methods used in the JPS edition would...

The ESV is quite acceptable, though a bit overly formal at times. We use it in our services. Our sermon was from Galatians 6 this morning. Regarding gender and being overly formal, i added a translation note to myself on Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you...

Nice post, but you're personifying science - science isn't a person or people. Science is the study of the physical world and its phenomena. Science and Theology should agree, we're studying the world God created. Including God in science deals with the philosophy of science, rather than pure...

So stop using the term “literal” 24 hour day” You’re talking about a “literal” solar day. And peculiarly, a solar day before Genesis records the creation of Sol. An observation confounding interpreters of Genesis long ago. Snip Admitting to alternative theories about creation is not denying...

Look Ben, I did not take any position when I posted, I simply attempted to edumacate you about what a "long creation day" means to those who use the term. You ask: What is the biblical definition of a day? 1. Evening and morning, light and darkness, one day-night cycle (about 24 hours - but...

Ben, you are expressing a common but a fundamental misunderstanding of what a long creation day might entail. I'm just trying to get us on the same page. A long day does not mean one cycle of the sun around the planet Earth (that would be a "literal" day). It's better understood as what is...

A fine example of Brandolini's law - the amount of energy needed to refute nonsense is an order of magnitude greater than the energy needed to produce it. Rob

You're really pushing your Brandplucked website, Will. Has the volume of visitors dropped off? Rob

Evolutionary Creationism :eek: - The biblical time clock did not begin ticking until God spoke, giving purpose to his creation. Rob