Throughout history and continuing today, humanity has invented uncounted theologies that have caused great harm to people.  Religion has frequently been used as a weapon to force other people to do what those in power decide is appropriate.  For centuries, religious men have blamed their own greed, fear and selfishness on vast pantheons of deities in order to buttress their own authority.  It is much more forceful to claim that your own will is the will of God if you... Read more

What is the big deal about Numbers 25:6-12? What is the big deal about Numbers 25:6-12?  What is the Torah talking about?  What kind of god do we see here?  If this is the same deity Yeshua talks about, something is very wrong here! Let’s explore the text (KJV). 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of... Read more

Everybody knows the Ten Commandments, right? Well, maybe. Some people will tell you that there are only two. Some will say there are not two, not ten, but 613 Commandments given by YHWH to his people, the Children of Israel. If the Bible is to be the guide to faith and practice for the world’s Jews and Christians, why can’t we agree on what God’s word actually is? Many people read the Bible for instructions on how to live.  That’s... Read more

…and God said “Let there be a Bible and let it be perfect and let no one challenge anything in it.” I’m not sure on which day out of six, YHWH made this decree but surely it was originally a part of the Genesis story.  Surely. Otherwise, why would some Christians believe that a book, written BY MEN and copied over and over BY MEN and translated over and over BY MEN could possibly be perfect and without challenge as... Read more

In John Bunyan’s allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress, the Slough of Despond is the metaphor used to portray the difficulties experienced by the protagonist, Christian, as his sins and his guilt weigh him down, sinking him deeper and deeper into the allegorical bog. It is a vitally important thing for America and the world to make an effort to understand how deeply our national ignorance and arrogance have carried us into the modern version of the Slough of Despond so that... Read more

January 6, 2024 War accompanies practically every effort of mankind either as either a cause or a result. One cannot pick up a newspaper, turn on the television or connect to the internet without seeing some report of war in some corner of the world.  Whether in the Middle East or in Eastern Europe or in Africa or in India or even in Ireland, it seems that, as a species, we are constantly at war with someone somewhere. What makes... Read more

12/30/2023 About two years ago, I started to study and write about Biblical history and the many interpretations people have made of the Bible.  I had no clear idea at the time where this was leading.  Originally, I had thought I would write a book outlining what I believe to be important from say…creation on down. As I began to study and learn, I quickly realized that that was unlikely to happen, given that I have a limited number of... Read more