Trump Calls Courageous Zelenskyy “a Dictator”

Last updated on: February 19, 2025 at 1:38 pm By Kermit Zarley

First-time, official talks about the war in Ukraine began yesterday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between the U.S. and Russia, with Ukraine being excluded. The U.S. is involved because it has furnished the most military support for Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion and attack against its country three years ago. To set the tone, U.S. President Donald Trump, who is not attending the discussions, made disparaging and false remarks about Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. U.S. President Donald... Read more

Update on Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump July 13 2024

Last updated on: February 3, 2025 at 3:23 pm By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

[The following post is an update of my post on September 4, 2024, entitled, “Did God Protect Trump from that Assassin’s Bullet?”] Donald Trump was almost killed on July 13, 2024, at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Twenty-year old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, PA, shot eight bullets in six seconds from his AR-15 rifle from atop a building 130 yards away from the stage where Trump was speaking at just after 6 PM. A transcript of the... Read more

Is “the Word” in John 1.1-3 an “it” or a “him”?

Last updated on: April 28, 2025 at 11:46 am By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

The Logos Concept during Antiquity During antiquity, Judaism, Hellenism, and other cultures had a concept known as logos in the Greek language. It usually was understood as “word,” “mind,” or “reason.” It generally was believed that God or gods related to human beings and communicated to them by means of this logos. Regarding God, it often was understood as “the word of God.” Greeks Platonists conceived of a pleroma of aeons between divinity and humans, with the logos being chief... Read more

Introduction to Jewish Interpretations of Daniel 7

Last updated on: February 21, 2025 at 2:14 pm By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

[This article is post #4 of a multi-post review of Richard Bauckham’s book “Son of Man”: Volume 1: Early Jewish Literature. Click here to go to post #1.] Was Daniel Written in 6th or 2nd Century BCE? Most modern scholars of the Old Testament have strongly asserted that the apocalyptic book of Daniel—which claims to have been written in the 6th century BCE and purports to present much prediction about the future—was written in the 2nd century BCE, during the... Read more

Worship of the Son of Man in The Parables of Enoch

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 6:24 pm By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

[This is post #3 of a multi-post review of Richard Bauckham’s book “Son of Man”: Volume 1: Early Jewish Literature. Click here to read post #1.] The Son of Man in The Parables Is a Man In Richard Bauckham’s book, “Son of Man”: Volume 1: Early Jewish Literature, Chapter 1.4 is entitled “The Identity of ‘That Son of Man.’” It is about the identity of the Son of Man in The Parables of Enoch and whether this figure is presented... Read more

The Messianic Figure in the Parables of Enoch

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 6:11 pm By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

[This article is post #2 of a multiple-post review I am doing of Richard Bauckham’s book, “Son of Man”: Volume 1: Early Jewish Literature (Eerdmans, 2023). Click here to see post #1.] In Richard Bauckham’s book “Son of Man”: Volume 1: Early Jewish Literature (2023), in his chapter on “The Messianic Figure … in the Parables of Enoch,” he informs that the renaissance of scholarly interest in the ancient Book of Enoch, which is more precisely identified as 1 Enoch,... Read more

Introduction to “The Parables of Enoch”

Last updated on: February 20, 2025 at 7:15 pm By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

I Love “Son of Man Study” [This “post #1” is the first of a series of seven posts that are a review of Richard Bauckham’s book, “Son of Man”: Volume 1: Early Jewish Literature.] My favorite biblical study for about the past thirty years has been what scholars call “Son of Man study.” It is because, according to the New Testament (NT) gospels, Jesus used this expression, “the Son of Man,” and applied it to himself way more than any... Read more

Trump Said in his Inauguration Speech He Was “Saved by God”

Last updated on: January 21, 2025 at 10:32 pm By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

President Donald Trump recounted Monday in his Inauguration Day about the assassination attempt on his life last summer in Pennsylvania at a political rally. He had amazingly turned his head at the very instant when the assassin’s bullet stuck his ear, making it quite bloody. As he was standing at the lectern, his body guards pushed him down to protect him. Seconds later Mr. Trump stood up, raising his right hand with clenched fist and shouting at his perceived assassin... Read more

Trump Is Sworn-In as President without his Hand on the Bible

Last updated on: January 20, 2025 at 10:38 pm By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

Donald F. Trump was sworn in on this Inauguration Day as U.S. president for the second time, but this time without placing his hand on the Bible. His wife, Melania, stood beside him holding two Bibles. The first time Mr. Trump was sworn-in as president, in 2017, he held up his right hand as a promise to protect the U.S. Constitution and placed his left hand on a Bible as if to verify his promise before the God of the... Read more

The “Cosmic Distance Ladder” Reminds Me of “Jacob’s Ladder”

Last updated on: January 17, 2025 at 9:34 pm By Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

This weekend in Washington, D.C., NASA and Carnegie Science are celebrating a centennial discovery at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It is Edwin Hubble’s discovery with his telescope in 1923 of a star outside of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is home to our Earth. Previously, most astronomers had thought our galaxy was the only one in our universe so the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy was the edge of the universe. Instead, Hubble’s discovery of... Read more