“The same sun that melts the wax also hardens the clay.” This is the phrase I kept thinking of when I was reading through the final batch of plagues. It says that Pharaoh was arrogant (9:16) and that he sinned (9:27). They had no fear of the Lord (9:30)...
Last night I watched the debate between Christopher Hitchens (anti-theist) and Frank Turek (Christian). I was expecting a good scholarly debate and that it was not. While Frank was obviously a bit nervous in the beginning as it was his first debate, Hitchens one and...
It’s really a disconcerting picture and I understand why in Romans 9 they ask, “Then why does God still blame us? Who is able to resist His will?” (9:19). After suffering 400 years under the hands of the Egyptians, and “the time of the...
Why is this story in the Bible? Tamar’s husband dies and so Tamar’s father-in-law, Judah, son of Joseph, promises her his next son when he grows up. But it doesn’t happen. So Tamar dresses up like a prostitute, Judah acquires her services leaving...
They knew God. That’s the hardest thing to stomach. The people of Romans 1 who were calling sin as something righteous, knew God. “For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitutde. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and...
