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  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2011-08-22

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-07-06

  • I Missed the Honeymoon

    This verse speaks of the wilderness wanderings in terms of notions that even today we find wonderfully pleasant and romantic. The bride and the groom go on a long journey. During that journey the bride…

    Created 11 months ago

    Jeremiah 2:2 (ESV)

  • Now What?

    I find this verse horribly frustrating. In the broader context of the biblical wisdom literature, especially in the book of proverbs, we are enjoined upon to seek for wisdom and to live the right way…

    Created 11 months ago

    Proverbs 16:25 (ESV)

  • Anachronisms

    The phrase "native of the land" is an anachronism in that there is no such thing as a native of the land of Israel, since the Jewish people had not yet occupied the land in which later generations would…

    Created 12 months ago

    Exodus 12:19 (ESV)

  • your mother and me

    Didn't Rachel already die by this vision? According to Genesis 35:16, she died while giving birth to Benjamin. Now, we could argue that the stories are out of chronological order, however.

    Created about 1 year ago

    Genesis 37:10 (KJV)

  • HIS Old Age

    It is very interesting to note that as Sarah speaks of her post-menopausal experience of child-bearing, she seems to completely ignore her own part in the miracle story. The focus of these words of praise…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Genesis 21:6 (ESV), Genesis 21:7 (ESV)

  • Beautiful (Geriatric?) Wife

    When Christians think about this passage, it is traditionally to think about the moral implications of Abram's demand that his "very beautiful" (verse 14). This has always fascinated me because Abram…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Genesis 12:10 (ESV), Genesis 12:11 (ESV), Genesis 12:12 (ESV), Genesis 12:13 (ESV), Genesis 12:14 (ESV)

  • The Raven

    When the text speaks of the raven toking about until dry land was visible,is kit trying to say that the bird fflew around for days and even weeks?

    Created about 1 year ago

    Genesis 8:7 (ESV)

  • "He who now restrains"

    In my up-bringing at church, I had always been taught that this refers to the Holy Spirit. Oddly enough, though, there is only one mention of the Spirit in the entire letter. That is found verse 13 of…

    Created about 1 year ago

    2 Thessalonians 2:6 (ESV), 2 Thessalonians 2:7 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-05-16

  • The Immutable

    The same in the past, in the present, and in the future. This is at the core of the belief that God is immutable. Were God to change even a little, he would be some other being than the God we seek. Thus,…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Hebrews 13:8 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-05-02

  • Comparison

    Several sources compare this verse to Islamic determinism in which God is thought to create both good and evil. That is, by Islamic predestination, God causes some people to do good works leading to heaven…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Isaiah 45:7 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-02-13

  • Malachi 2:2

    Malachi 2:2 (ESV)
    If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

    Created over 1 year ago

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  • Luke 3:5

    Luke 3:5 (ESV)
    Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways,

    Created over 1 year ago

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  • 1 Corinthians 12:24

    1 Corinthians 12:24 (ESV)
    which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,

    Created over 1 year ago

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  • Philippians 3:19

    Philippians 3:19 (ESV)
    Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

    Created over 1 year ago

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