Today’s Readings:
Numbers 33-36; Hebrews 7
Numbers 33:
[51] “Say to the people of Israel, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, [52] then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high [...]
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God gives permission for gentrification.
Posted in bible, numbers, old testament, tagged borders, consumerism, displacement, gentrification, just war, materialism, moses, nationalism, numbers, ownership, property on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got nothin’.
Posted in isaiah, old testament, tagged bible, doubt, faith, isaiah, jesus, new testament, old testament, paul, prophets prophecy on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Readings:
Isaiah 52-53; Galatians 6
I really don’t enjoy reading Isaiah. The first time I started reading his book a year ago, I got really into it. Everyone else in the Bible is always talkin’ about the prophet Isaiah. I wanted to know what it was all about. In the end, I find it incredibly hard [...]
Moses as a Hebrew in Egypt
Posted in exodus, old testament, tagged bible, biblical holes, clarity, divinity, egyptians, jesus, moses, movies, pharaoh, son of god on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s readings:
Exodus 1-2; Mark 8:1-26
There isn’t a moment in the Bible when Moses finds out that he is a Jew. It says he is raised in Pharaoh’s household and then suddenly he is looking over his people:
[11] One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their [...]
Quite the Blessing
Posted in genesis, old testament, tagged bible, dan, gad asher, genesis, jacob, joseph, naphtali on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Readings: Genesis 47-50; Mark 7:24-37
I finished Genesis today. I have to say that I really enjoyed reading it (I think enjoyed is the word I want). Whoever wrote it is quite the storyteller. I know that I’ve read it before, but I found it more engaging this time than I ever [...]
Jacob’s Ladder
Posted in genesis, old testament, tagged angels, bible, childhood memories, genesis, jacob's ladder on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read about Jacob’s ladder today. You know, the one with angels going up and down (Genesis 28:10-17). Considering how much the toy intrigued me, the story was kind of anti-climactic. I mean, sure, seeing angels going back and forth from heaven was probably fairly awesome for Jacob, but I just didn’t [...]
Remember that time that Lot had sex with his daughters?
Posted in genesis, old testament, tagged bible, genesis, gomorrah, homosexuality, incest, lot, rage, sodom on January 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Lot and his two daughters escape into the hills and live out their lives there. With their mother gone and no men in the hills to wed, the girls get their father drunk and then somehow manage to get him to sleep with them so they can continue the bloodline.
Wait. What? SERIOUSLY?! I MEAN, SERIOUSLY?!
Isaac and Ishmael
Posted in genesis, old testament, tagged aaron sorkin, bible, genesis, isaac, ishmael, jealousy, terrorism, west wing on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did a feud between two races truly begin because of the jealousy between the two wives of one man? Is that really how this all works?
God is an “Us”(?)
Posted in genesis, old testament, tagged angels, bible, biblical confusion, biblical typos, feminism, genesis, monotheism, omnipotence, polytheism, skepticism, translations on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; …”
Genesis 1:26
This may seem like an asinine question right off the bat, but who is the “us” in this statement of God?
