"I had my back to the light and my face towards the things which are illuminated. So my face, by which I was enabled to see the things lit up, was not itself il...
“Jewish polemic against idolatry and similar Christian rejection of idolatry are directed not only at outsiders but also at insiders, at members of ‘our’ group ...
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In response to our rebellion against Him, the shape of God’s punishment fits the nature of our crime with ironic just...
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“For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unr...
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“For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unr...
The beginning of a four-part series on Romans 1:18-32, this material comes out of some research and writing I've been doing recently.
“A soul that turns away f...
My dear Wigglesworm,
It's been sweltering down here in the Lower Regions - you would think you were in the high summer of Boston, but no, it's just hell. Any...
“You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every g...
In both the Jewish and Christian worldviews, idolatry is the overarching “meta-sin” (to use Simon Gathercole’s expression) underneath all other secondary acts a...