Judaism forbids the pronunciation of God's name. What is God's name? It is not "Father," as many Christians think. Jesus' favorite identification of God was "Father." That conveys the wonderful concepts of love, nurturing, and protecting. But "father" is a title of God, not his name. The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is very clear in saying that God's name is yhwh/YHWH. See especially Exodus 3.13-15 NIV. Moses therein asked the angel of the LORD in the burning bush incident about God, "What is … [Read more...]
Jethro Will Always Be Jethro
January 3, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Donna Douglas died yesterday at 82 years of age. She played a starring role as Elly May on that beloved but whacky TV sitcom comedy The Beverly Hillbillies. It was one of American television's most watched series, and it ran for nine years. It was about a poor, backwoods family that struck oil on their land, making them filthy rich. They then moved west to Beverly Hills, California, next to Hollywood. Enjoying the "good life" in sunny and culturally-modern California, however, did not take the c … [Read more...]
Nuclear Disarmament Goes to the World Court
December 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Soon after WWII ended, the U.S. and the Soviet Union began their Cold War nuclear arms race which continued for more than a generation. From 1946 to 1958 the U.S. government detonated 23 atomic bombs as tests both above ground and underwater in the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands located in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. had convinced the islanders to temporarily leave their homes, telling them they could return afterwards to their land that would not suffer any ill-effects from the … [Read more...]
Will There Be Any Atheists in the Endtimes?
December 16, 2014 by Leave a Comment
According to the Bible, there won't be many atheists, if any, during the endtimes. Prophecies about this are in Daniel and Revelation, the two foremost apocalyptic books in the Bible. Revelation in the New Testament actually fills in details of the endtimes framework established in Daniel in the Old Testament.Both Daniel and Revelation predict that a man will arise during the so-called endtimes who will become one of the greatest political and religious leaders in human history. Christians … [Read more...]
Torturing the U.S. National Conscience
December 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its 6,000+ page report last week on the interrogation techniques of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that it has exercised on captured, suspected terrorists following 9/11. The CIA calls it "enhanced interrogation techniques" (EITs); the report calls much of it "torture." The primary technique that has been debated for years now is "waterboarding." The purpose of the report is to stir the national conscience into passing laws in … [Read more...]
Review of Dunn’s Book, Jesus and the Spirit
December 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment
I recently read James D.G. Dunn’s book entitled Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of the Religious and Charismatic Experience of Jesus and the First Christians as Reflected in the New Testament, published in 1975. It was his second book. Jimmy, as his friends call him, went on to become one of the premier New Testament (NT) scholars in the world and perhaps the foremost scholar on Christology, largely due to his book published in 1980 entitled Christology in the Making (short title), published in 1 … [Read more...]
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