Someone asked me the other day about blessings. I suppose the person still had on their mind the Blessing of the Little Children. God is greater than all of us, and He abundantly blesses us with life and the good things of the earth. It is easy to see how…
Recently, David Ben-Ariel posted the article “Truth About Makeup”. I really mean he “posted” it and not “wrote” it, as it is a recycling job of one of Herbert W Armstrong’s (HWA) articles. Well, here is an interesting quote from that article: The English word "lipstick" is not used anywhere…
Not long ago, I reported on the new NIV being worked on, and about how it will replace the TNIV, which many considered somewhat controversial because of it’s “political correctness”. Well, it appears that the people over at Conservapedia are going to ensure all political correctness disappears from a new…
One of the Feast of Tabernacles messages I heard this year was about the symbolism of trees in Scripture. Of course, those of us over a certain age probably remember a white-haired man talking about the two trees in the Garden of Eden. There are other trees in Scripture, though,…
I heard on the radio and read on Yahoo! News that the “Best-selling Bible to undergo revision”. It will replace the more controversial Today’s New International Version (TNIV). Languages are not solid objects, and words change their meanings over time, so it isn’t unusual for a translation to be revised….
Today, of course, is 9/11, the 8th anniversary of the day that 2 planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, 1 plan crashed into the Pentagon and a 3rd was retaken over by passengers and crashed near Shanksville, PA. All in all, 2,993 people died, including the hijackers…
We have established that the Law in some form has always existed. Even in the Creation Story, we see the Sabbath, marriage and a strong hint at the Holy Days. We various laws in action throughout Genesis, and Abraham is praised by God because he “obeyed my voice, and kept…
Dispensationalism, the idea that there are different ages in which God works differently with people through time, sounds good on the surface. However, it does begin to break down when analyzed closely. The Law is only one area where changes are claimed to have been made, but it is usually…
Do you stone your child for talking back? Do you stone adulterers? Do you kill witches? ~ Actual questions from skeptics asked on some forums Does God work with people in different ways down through the ages? Individuals are different. Groups of people differ all the time. We do see…
Some ideas sound good on the surface. They can sound reasonable, even logical. However, when you dig into some of them, you start to find all sorts of things that just don’t jive with reality. That is the danger of using human reasoning when it comes to understanding God and…