Some short items: 1. The biggest compromise, the single greatest threat, to serving Christ today is our instinctive dependence on funding. I’ve lived in poverty, to the point I wondered if I was going to eat. It didn’t hinder my sense of mission calling. If anything, that brought my convictions into greater prominence. The fear…
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JHJR 04
Shahak next discusses a bit about the Talmudic law. We get a rundown of how the Babylonian Talmud is actually too large for all but the most devoted scholars. There are various editions summarizing the massive code. Naturally things are slanted in favor of Jews. He outlines the crime of murder and how the penalties…
JHJR 03
Shahak outlines the various phases of Jewish history: (1) OT up to the Exile in 587 BC, (2) Exile and Post-Exile through 200 AD (AKA Second Temple Period), (3) Classical Judaism (200 AD to 1600-1700s) and (4) Modern Judaism characterized by a complete breakdown of totalitarian authority over Jewish people. On the one hand, the…
JTMEE: Chapter 16
Our text is Matthew 15:21-28, the Syro-Phoenician Woman. Bailey notes that most western Christians are embarrassed by how Jesus puts this woman through the wringer before He grants her request. The rhetorical flow of the passage is ABCBA. A. The woman’s request B. Jesus is for Israel C. The Parable of Children, Dogs and Bread…
Boundaries and Exceptions
I’m going to interrupt the series today. God has called me. I am not accountable to any man for that calling, only to God. When the Holy Spirit tells me to change something, I strive to obey. When man tells me to change something, I always check with my Lord first, because my peace with…
Misreading Scripture: Racism 02
R/OB mention how accents can be the basis for discrimination. In the Bible, we rarely have a clue about how that affected the narrative. It was mentioned once in the Old Testament when there was war between two tribes (Judges 12) from which we get our figure of speech regarding the word shibboleth. But it…
Misreading Scripture: Racism 01
In chapter two of Misreading Scripture, R/OB attempt to talk about race and ethnicity. They do a poor job, trying to virtue signal without noticing that the Bible is quite racist. Here’s my point: human are racist by wiring. Infants are racially aware. It is utterly impossible to turn that off, though we have been…