Biblical Questions

  • Parables: Truth Hidden in the Open, Part II

    “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” (Luke 8.8) “To you [My disciples] has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that ‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not…

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  • Parables: Truth Hidden in the Open

    “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” (Luke 8.8). Who has ears? Most people, right? Of course, there are anomalies, but the general makeup of the human being is two ears, two eyes, one mouth, two hands, five fingers, etc., etc. So, based off the above statement by Jesus it would appear at…

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  • Reflections on the First King of Israel: Why Saul?

    In what follows are some personal reflections that I have been having about Saul 1st king of Israel. These thoughts are the results of my own personal study. Rereading through the Book of Judges and the time of Samuel and Saul I have noticed a recurring pattern that seems strikingly familiar with our own period…

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  • How well do you Read Your Bible? Managing Prophetic Passage Pitfalls

    How well do you read your Bible’s? Let’s do a little test shall we and see what comes about. Read the following passage: “Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.…

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  • Confusion over the Potter and the pots

    Isa 29:16 reads, “​You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?[i] Our theology gets a bit screwy and we mess things up…

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