Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Deuteronomy

  • Fundamentalism and Anachronism at Desiring God

    Yesterday there was a post on the Desiring God blog about “boring” passages in the Bible (why they put boring in quotes I don’t know; I would just call them boring), especially the Pentateuch.  There is so much wrong with the particular details of this post that it is difficult to really know where to…

  • The Death of Moses – What a Depressing End

    Today’s lectionary reading (Deut. 34) involves Moses dying in the land of Moab before reaching the Promised Land.  There are two elements of this story that to me add to the drama and make for quite a depressing tale, even though one does find the positive statements about Moses at the end. Notice where Moses…

  • 7 Verses on the Love of God in the Old Testament

    God sometimes gets a bad rap for his actions in the Old Testament. If you want to see this in practice, just go on over to Yahoo! Answers and search “Old Testament.” You can bet that many of the results will be questions like “Why is God so great and wonderful in the New Testament…