About a month ago, Robert Thiel posted about “TOCOG: A New Group in Canada”, so I finally looked them up to have a look. Talk about an ugly website! I thought Thiel’s article had a copy and paste error in it, but it turns out that’s they way they write!…
Irony. The place often suffered from earthquakes, especially from the great shock in the reign of Nero (60 AD), in which it was completely destroyed. But the inhabitants declined imperial assistance to rebuild the city and restored it from their own means.[8] The wealth of its inhabitants created among them…
One of the paid ads in the last edition of The Journal asks, “Are you sure you can show that Jesus was the Creator God of the OT?” The author, who is not identified (other than belonging to www.rightly-dividing.net), then wrote: So how does the ministry handle scriptures that deny…
Job appears to have never been told about the exchange between God and Satan in the first 2 chapters of the book. Indeed, often our situation can be similar. We may cry out to God, “Why?”, yet the answer doesn’t seem to come to us. We look for easy answers,…
One of the themes in the latest Journal is about UCG first voting to move to Texas and the next year voting to not move. The question seems to have come up at least a couple of times in this issue, “Did God change His mind?” First of all, I…
John H Ogwyn of LCG wrote “Study Topic: Seven lessons from the book of Job”. While not as comprehensive as some of the other articles I have posted about this week, it still has some excellent points. The ending of Job is sort of a mystery in many respects. A…
Today, the AP reported “US man returns after release from Myanmar jail”. However, Aung San Suu Kyi and her 2 aides remain in detention. The military junta in charge of Myanmar has used the incident as an excuse to keep them detained through the next elections. Of course, the debate…
The British newspaper The Sunday Times will become the guinea pig for testing paid access to the newspaper, reported the Bangkok Post in “Sunday Times to test charge for content”. News Corp owns The Sunday Times, The Times and The Wall Street Journal and already charges for access to the…
It seems that items of interest come in waves of sorts. Last week, I posted the first article in a series on Tithing. Meanwhile, wouldn’t you know it but that I came across a couple of related blog articles. First, David Ben-Ariel posted the below video “Religious Truth (Herbert W….
Must be a “Book of Job Week”. I guess I cannot help it. It is one of the most enigmatic books of the Bible. It is a reminder that sometimes “good people” suffer for reasons we don’t always understand. It is also a reminder that God is in control. However,…