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Name Changes in the Bible
Going to be teaching on Genesis 32 tonight where Jacob’s name is changed to Israel. And, I just started trying to recall some significant name changes in the Bible off the top of my head for illustration purposes. Here goes: Abram -> Abraham Sarai -> Sarah Jacob -> Israel Joseph -> Zaphenath-paneah Ben-Oni -> Benjamin…
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Terence E. Fretheim on God and Violence in the Old Testament
HERE is a link to a helpful article by Terence E. Fretheim in Word and World (Vo1. 24.1, 2004) on “God and Violence in the Old Testament.” I will try to summarize Fretheim’s points the best that I can: Violence is both an Old Testament and New Testament phenomenon. I recommend checking out the footnotes…
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Have You Heard that Religious Belief is Dying Out?
Have you heard that religious belief is supposedly dying out? Not according to THESE FACTS AND FIGURES. Thanks to John Hobbins over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry for posting them. Some of these statistics are absolutely astounding. I’ll give you just one to whet your appetite: 2#. Every 24 hours, the number of atheists in the…