Compassionate Reading
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16 items tagged #old-testament, across the whole site.
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Are Jesus and Christ the Same Person?
Maybe! But also maybe not! Let's dig into the differences. (They definitely are two distinct things.)
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On the Origin of Navels and Other Things
Did Adam and Eve have navels is a silly question. They didn't, for several reasons:
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Abraham & Isaac
Once upon a time, in the Bible, God and Abraham were having a conversation. God was explaining how he needed to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham was explaining how he…
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"Your God Shall Be My God": The Book of Ruth
In many ways, The Book of Ruth is a gentle echo of The Book of Job. In Job, we witness a righteous man destroyed for a wager who remains unwavering in his faith right up until he…
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Lot & His Daughters, or, Hospitality Gone Terribly Wrong
There are Bible stories that aren't in the Bible, and it occurs to me right now that I could spend a lot of time not writing at all about Lot and his daughters and just talk about…
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"An Infinity of Silence": The Book of Job
One of my favorite passages in the entire Bible is Job 42:3: "Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know."
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Evil
Roxanne asked about evil. I'll tell you now, at the beginning, to save you time if you thought I was going to be able to answer this question: I don't know how to answer this…
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Donkeys & Dongs: Ezekiel 23:20-21 in Context
I asked my friends on Facebook if they had any questions regarding the Bible that a very inexperienced Christian might do his best to answer. (To be clear, I am the Very…
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Satan & Scripture
This momentary president's son said a dumb thing on Twitter: "Likelihood of Nancy Pelosi praying for Trump is about the same as the likelihood of Satan running around quoting the…
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Genesis 1:1-2 | Something Out of Something
At the beginning of God’s creating of the heavens and the earth, when the earth was wild and waste, darkness over the face of Ocean -- Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses
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Genesis 1:6-8 | What Does it Mean to Be Good?
God said: Let there be a dome amid the waters, And let it separate waters from waters! God made the dome And separated the waters that were below the dome from the waters that were…
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When Your Cat May Also Be God
you say "more?" and he says "yes" and then you say "even more?" and he says "yes" and you say "i have no more left" and he says "yes" and you say "but i cannot stop?" and he says
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Universal Salvation, Universal Love
I asked my pastor last night, an amazing woman named Jill McCrory of Twinbrook Baptist, what her most radical belief was w/r/t God and the Bible. She said, "Universal Salvation…
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The Book I'm Not Reading
I own a not insignificant number of copies of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, the best novel ever written in the English language. As a Christian who is saved in Christ (I think?)…
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"I battled the Holy Ghost once on the laundry porch"
Truth is a Gentlemen’s Agreement between two people, neither of whom are gentlemen, neither interested in honesty. Instead, these people are simply polite fictions dressed up in…
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"I Guess I'll Read My Bible Elsewhere"
A few weeks ago, at the Meeting House, Zach was breathing too loudly while he was sitting in quiet contemplation for the still small voice of God. A woman in front of us, panicked…