Tag: Israel
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The Most High Priest?
Humans are predictable creatures. Just as hunger and thirst are common to us all, we share many other things too. Music, art, social hierarchy, desire for companionship, and so on. There is also this natural tendency towards belief in the supernatural, a higher power that brought us into existence and has some ultimate plan. Coinciding with…
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The Ivory Tower Problem
People hate when they realize information has been kept from them. That’s been universally true for all of time. Whether it be the result of an intentional action, or the result of simply being unaware, the perception is inevitably that knowledge was being gate-kept. It was intentional. This is no less true in the realm…
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A Pharaoh(ly) Ridiculous Plague Narrative: The Godzilla Frog – Part 1
The more I study the Bible, the more humor I get from it. Perhaps not directly from the author, but more so from the idea of taking certain parts literally. There have been a few times I have actually laughed out loud. Studying the plague narrative, post-deconstruction, was enjoyably one of those times! Let’s jump…
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Is This What Happens When You Cheap Out on Your Musicians?
Studying the Bible should be fun. It should be informative. It should be comical at times. It should absolutely be perplexing too. This story? It’s got all of it. It’s the story of the time that God *checks notes*…lost in battle? What!?!? That can’t be right? Well…if we’re fair with our interpretations then yes. Many…
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The exodus. Big, small, or not at all?
The Exodus is a fascinating story. A real underdog escape from a great evil. From an early age, I often pondered how such a large group of people could manage to stay organized well enough to leave simultaneously, stay in formation, and manage to not leave some indelible mark on Egyptian history. As stated in…
Space For Doubt 