Israel has a long, repeated history of doing something that ends its peace process with the Palestinians right when important negotiations with them are about to begin. Now they’ve done it again. It often involves Israel announcing plans to construct housing units in some Jewish settlement in the West Bank or East Jerusalem. Guess what! That’s what it is this time, too. On Sunday, Israel announced that it will build 1,200 more settlement homes: 2/3s in the West Bank and 1/3 in East … [Read more...]
If Jesus Is God That’s Really Quite Odd, Since God the Father He Would Call “My God”
August 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Most Christians believe Jesus is God because that is what the institutional church has taught. And it has asserted that if anyone does not believe Jesus is God, that person is not a genuine Christian. But the Bible never supports this assertion. For example, the Bible states repeatedly that Jesus had a God, he prayed to his God, and he worshiped his God. Since the Bible constantly proclaims there is numerically only one God, which Jesus affirms, Jesus having a God is prime proof he wasn’t … [Read more...]
Karsten Solheim (Part 2)
August 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Karsten Solheim first introduced his PING EYE irons in 1979. They were stainless steel, made with the investment cast process, and had the usual cavity in the back which enabled perimeter weighting. In 1981, Karsten substantially improved them and named these PING EYE2 irons. I then started playing PING irons for the first time in my PGA TOUR career. Karsten had finally made irons I believed were superior to other iron clubs made by equipment manufacturers for pro golfers, that is, except … [Read more...]
Did Jesus Mean He Was God When He Said, “I and the Father Are One”?
August 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Most Christians think Jesus claimed to be God. Ask most of them who know their Bible, “Where does the Bible say Jesus claimed to be God?” and they’ll likely answer, “He said it in John 10.30, ‘I and the Father are one.’” But that is a far cry from saying, “I am God,” or the like. One is struck with the thought, “Is that the best evidence Christians have for Jesus claiming to be God? If so, maybe he never made such a claim.” This is a very important issue for Christians. … [Read more...]
The Word Wasn’t God, Oh Heaven Forbid; What God Was His Word Just Always Did
July 23, 2013 By 1 Comment
Bible versions are based on a Hebrew and Greek text which textual critics compile from extant, ancient manuscripts (MSS) which were hand-copied by professional scribes. Many modern Bible versions occasionally provide alternate readings in footnotes. These show that a word or phrase in the Hebrew or Greek text can be translated differently than what translators have put in their versions. Sometimes, these alternate readings concern textual variants because the MSS disagree. This is the case with … [Read more...]
I Agree with Helen Thomas–”Jews Should Get the Hell Out of Palestine”
July 20, 2013 By 1 Comment
But it depends on how you define "Palestine." I don't define it the way she did and just about everyone else does these days. Helen Thomas died yesterday at age 92. As a White House correspondent, she blazed a trail for women as a pioneer in American journalism. Often called "the First Lady of the Press," she became the first female president of the White House Correspondents' Association and the Washington's Gridiron Club. And she was the first female officer of the prestigious National … [Read more...]
Your Gospel of John Says “the Word Was God,” But that Translation Is Really Quite Odd
July 17, 2013 By 3 Comments
Throughout church history, almost all New Testament (NT) scholars have insisted there are two primary NT passages that identify Jesus as "God." These are John 1.1c ("and the Word was God") and John 20.28 ("my Lord and my God").* In this article we will consider only John 1.1c. This brief phrase has caused Christians to believe Jesus is God more than any Bible text. But that's because most of them don’t know biblical Greek and thus are unaware of the grammatical issues involved. The Gospel … [Read more...]
Karsten Solheim (Part 1)
July 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Karsten Solheim was born in Norway in 1911. His family emigrated to the U.S. in 1913 and settled in Seattle, Washington. (That’s where I was later born and reared.) Karsten’s dad was a shoe repairman. Karsten’s first job was working for his father soling shoes. But that didn’t seem to satisfy his inquisitive mind, so he soon quit. Surprisingly, he eventually started selling pots and pans door-to-door in Seattle. However, Karsten really wanted to be a mechanical engineer. So, he enrolled … [Read more...]
Let’s Go Back to Typewriters
July 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Ha! Protect our security--go back to typewriters. Russia's Federal Protective Service--a KGB successor agency with the responsibility of protecting President Vladimir Putin and his government officials--has ordered 20 typewriters at a cost of perhaps $750 each. If anybody has saved their old typewriter, sell it to Vladimir and make a big profit. It's about breaching electronic security. It's because of all of these recent leaks of classified U.S. government documents. It started with young … [Read more...]
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