His friends sit with him seven days in silence, which is the best thing anybody does in the book. Then they open their mouths. Their theology is airtight and wrong. God is just, the righteous prosper and the wicked suffer, Job is suffering badly, so Job sinned badly. By the third round Eliphaz is inventing sins to fill the hole, accusing Job of stripping the poor and withholding water from the thirsty. Job answers with what he can see: the wicked often die rich and comfortable.

Run reason, intelligence, or conscience through that and they fail. They are not held equally, since a person with advanced dementia or a severe brain injury does not have them the way a healthy adult does. An unborn child does not have working rational thought yet. And they are not unique. Animals reason, and a chess engine out-thinks every human alive. If the image is a brain-based quality, you have written the unborn, the disabled, and the dying out of it, and made it something a smart enough machine could earn.

Asked why the boys were still alive, the midwives told Pharaoh the Hebrew women were vigorous and gave birth before a midwife could reach them (Exodus 1:19). God was good to the midwives, and because they feared Him He made households for them.

Saga of the Forgotten Warrior is one of my favorite series. Larry Correia writes books for men who like books about men and plenty of us are out here reading them.

1 Chronicles gives Saul a single chapter of story, his death on Mount Gilboa. It ends with Yahweh turning the kingdom to David, and chapter 11 opens with all Israel gathering to David at Hebron.

Most of what we know about Marcion's Bible comes from the men who wrote against him. Tertullian spent 5 books on him, and book 4 tests Marcion against his own cut of Luke, working through it chapter by chapter.

As a huge Sci-fi and Fantasy fan, I am excited about diving into this series.

I’ve been building a Bible study app, and I need people to test it before I share it more widely. There are a lot of free Bible study tools out there, but they’re scattered across a dozen sites. I wanted one place where they work together beside the text, and I built it around how I actually study. It’s free and runs in your browser, on a phone or a computer. Some of what’s in it: Maps that explain what’s happening and why. Each comes with a short account of why the road runs where it does, and every stop is numbered with its verse. A year slider redraws the kingdoms of that year, and you can lay today’s map over the ancient one. Several translations side by side, and a Hebrew and Greek mode that marks where the original words change what the English says. What the early Church Fathers wrote on each verse, cross-references, and open study notes. The ancient world behind a New Testament passage: what a first reader knew without being told. Reading plans that keep your place. My personal notes intergrates with Logos and quite a bit more.. What I need from you: open it, read a chapter or two, and try to break it. If something is wrong, confusing or missing, tap Help, then Report a bug or Ask for a feature. if you are instrested in seeing or testing it out please message me.

Romans 16:7 says more about Andronicus and Junia than the apostles phrase. Paul calls them his kinsmen and his fellow prisoners, and says they were in Christ before him. 2 believers who had been prisoners like Paul and came to Christ ahead of him.

Zipporah is a Midianite. She isn't Israelite. And in this moment she is the one who sees the crisis and acts without asking anybody, doing the covenant work Moses had left undone.

Abram is counted righteous in Genesis 15 and not circumcised until 99 in Genesis 17. Romans 4:10 is built on that order.

Nicodemus shows up at the burial in John 19:39 carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litras. John tags him as the man who first came to Jesus by night.

I have no problem with how anyone takes communion. My view is probably a little different than most. I dont look at communion as drinking a shot of wine and eating a bit of bread. I look at it as more of a full meal you spend remembering Christ. 1 Corinthians 11:20 to 22 has the Corinthians eating a real supper, one hungry and another drunk. 11:25 puts the cup after supper. What Paul corrects is how they treated each other at the table, wait for one another in 11:33.

Psalm 83:18 names Yahweh as the Most High over all the earth, and the Dead Sea Scrolls reading of Deuteronomy 32:8 leaves that standing. The Qumran fragment 4QDeut j has sons of God where the LSB has sons of Israel, so the nations were handed to divine beings, and 32:39 in the same song has Yahweh saying there is no god besides Him. Heiser took the Qumran reading and still read Yahweh as the Most High. You can grant the scroll and keep one God at the top.

Leviathan is no whale. Isaiah 27:1 calls him the fleeing serpent, the twisted serpent, the same titles the Ugaritic texts give Lotan, and Revelation 12:9 names the serpent of old the devil and Satan.