Christmas & Easter: 2 Parts Of The Same Story…

December 21, 2010
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Hello Everyone, I wrote a new post to send out this week, but there was too much talk of death…so I can’t bring myself to send it out until after Christmas! This week is a time to celebrate new life!  I can’t say that I completely understand the incarnation…the “taking on flesh” by God, when [...]

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Paul Copan’s “Is God a Moral Monster?”

December 5, 2010
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A Message From Dr. Paul Copan Lately we’ve been discussing Old Testament Law and how we can reconcile it with the message of Jesus and with our society today.  Just this week I’ve had the privilege of “meeting”  Dr. Paul Copan via email after he commented on one of my recent posts.  He is one [...]

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Radical and Progressive Old Testament Law

November 21, 2010
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Old Testament Law…a Paradigm Shift of Immense Proportions In my last post, Old Testament Ethics – Eating an Elephant One Bite at a Time, we discussed the society and culture of the people in the Ancient Near East.  With the violence, slavery, oppression, bigotry, etc…it’s certainly not a place I’d have wanted to live! However, [...]

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Old Testament Ethics – Eating an Elephant One Bite at a Time

November 7, 2010
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Old Testament Ethics, Freedom, and the Ancient Near East Hi again!  If it’s the first time you are checking out this blog, Welcome!  If you’ve been here before, glad to see you back! Due to a friendly commenter opening up an interesting can of worms about the nature of God and the logic of  some [...]

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Old Testament Law, Stoning and Genocide: Did God Sanction Evil?

October 25, 2010
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Is Old Testament Law Evil and Yahweh a Moral Monster? The Old Testament contains some pretty ‘interesting‘ laws and events that appear to be examples of evil sanctioned by God.  Frankly, I’ve always had trouble understanding many of them.  Did someone collecting wood for a fire on the Sabbath really deserve stoning to death?  Why [...]

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