Today we begin Genesis Chapter 23. For the King James Version, click here. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. As is so characteristic of the Bible, in a matter-of-fact fashion we are told that Abraham’s beloved wife Sarah passed away at the ripe age of 127 years old. Abraham mourned his wife and then […]

I think we all have a tendency to relegate certain portions of the Scripture to the “NOT IMPORTANT” box in our brains. Maybe it’s the chapters containing the loooooong genealogies. Or all of the minute details concerning the construction of the wilderness tabernacle. Or how about the countless purity laws outlined for us in Leviticus? […]

For Isaac’s sacrifice, God commanded Abraham to go to the “Land of Moriah” to a certain mountaintop that would be pointed out to him. Over a thousand years later, King Solomon built YHVH’s temple on this very site.  It stood for about 400 years until King Nebuchadnezzar’s armies destroyed it sometime in 587 B.C. It […]

But the angel of Adonai called to him out of heaven: “Avraham? Avraham!” He answered, “Here I am.” He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy! Don’t do anything to him! For now I know that you are a man who fears God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” -Genesis […]

In a previous post I mentioned that it is not so easy to conform every manifestation of God in the Scriptures to the limited teaching of the trinity. Second, I also mentioned that the teaching of the trinity has the tendency to impart the idea that God can be separated into three different pieces. Like […]