Tag: notliteral

• “Jonah, For Once Would You Just Think Of The Cattle?”

  

  Have you ever had something you could not have possibly cared less about, and then wound up eventually caring greatly about that exact thing? The God of the Bible, if the text is to be assumed as univocal, certainly seems to do this. He wipes all of humanity out in a flood, then promises not…

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  May 20, 2025

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• A Pharaoh(ly) Ridiculous Plague Narrative: Not Even A Blip On The Radar – Part 3

  We last left off with Egypt as a land laid waste, in pretty much every sense of the word. Let’s finish off this story.  Now it came about at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was…

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  May 5, 2025

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