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It is common to portray Zipporah as a difficult and angry woman. I believe this is because of a rather poor understanding of the circumcision scene in Exodus 4. An equally poor translation has Zipporah disgusted with the fact that she has to step in to save Moses...
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July 8, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses
Christians often misunderstand what it means to call God holy and have a narrow understanding of our own holiness. God is holy in his very essence. Holy is the most precise word used by Scripture for deity. From this core understanding three other uses of “holy” emerge. That...
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May 25, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Biblical Studies
Words and symbols connected to the idea of the holy have over 4000 verses associated with them. It behooves us then to fully understand what the holy and holiness are. This first installment of four discussions lays down the nature of what it means for God to be...
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May 25, 2024 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Biblical Studies
The story of the burning bush is rather famous among Sunday School aficionados. In fact, in a completely made up nation-wide survey of 5-10 year olds who attended church at least bi-monthly with their families in 2019—there were not enough kids for the 2020 study—the story of the...
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July 29, 2022 Andrew Sargent
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“I’m a New Testament Christian!” A common boast by those little interested in the Old Testament… I mean… Doesn’t that just sound defunct… OLD… Good old things get the label antique, which is cool, but other old things just get OLD… rhymes with MOLD and for good reason. ...
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April 24, 2019 Andrew Sargent
Meeting the Jesus of Mark, NT's Use of the OT
So you are reading a prophetic vision story in the Bible, perhaps say, 1 Kings 22:19ff, and God appears sitting on a heavenly throne. Have you ever asked yourself the question… “Who invented the throne… God or People?” For that matter, who invented the chair? Did God sit...
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April 22, 2019 Andrew Sargent
Bible Backgrounds, Old Testament Studies
Once upon a time in a far away land, people made covenants. They were very happy with their covenants and everyone understood them. These covenants were so powerful in their message and work that the great God of the land, Yahweh he was called by those who knew...
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April 19, 2019 Andrew Sargent
Bible Backgrounds, Old Testament Studies
One of my great-uncles, a true good-ol’boy from west Texas, once said to my great-grandmother, “Mamma, it’s hard to find a good woman like you out there.” She replied, “There are plenty of good women like me out there. They just don’t hang out in the places you...
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March 28, 2018 Andrew Sargent
101 Most Misunderstood Verses, Bible Backgrounds, Biblical Studies, Biblical Theology, Old Testament Studies
