A Jahwist, an Elohist, and a Priest Walk into a Bar This Week Should we be concerned with contradictions in the text? How many “she’s my sister” cards did the Patriarchs pull? Was Jacob a trickster, or was he just #BLESSED? Like/Follow https://www.facebook.com/OutOfTheWhirlwind With the Jacob cycle this week and the Joseph cycle next week […]
Haggle Properly! This Week Was Abraham from Babylon or Syria? Was it Abraham or Sarah who laughed at the idea of Sarah bearing a child at 90 years of age?? Is it possible that Abraham may have actually sacrificed Isaac??? Like/Follow https://www.facebook.com/OutOfTheWhirlwind For the Proverbs, I’m going to switch from the SAAS translation used in […]
God, having of old spoken to the fathers by the prophets, in many places and in many ways, at the end of these days spoke to us in a Son. [Hebrews 1:1-2, Hart] We live in an age of facts, science, technology. Does that dusty old Bible on the shelf still have any relevance? Is […]
Creation, Creation, Creation This Week Who wrote the Bible? Is God majestically transcendent or intimately immanent, otherworldly or within our very selves? Did fallen angels really procreate with humans? How many of each animal did Noah actually take on the ark? Like/Follow: https://www.facebook.com/OutOfTheWhirlwind First, a Proverb (because the only way to digest them is in […]