Duh, it just hit me: Job’s camels were stolen by, and his servants slaughtered by, the Chaldeans. These are the Babyloneans of a later time.
I’m not sure but the Sabeans may have a similar significance.
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Then Job answered and said:
“How long will you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
And even if it be true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me
and make my disgrace an argument against [...]
I’m not sure this represents much of an improvement. You still have an ideal produced by either biological freaks or by people with the money and time to invest in a huge fitness regimen (private trainers, nutritionist/cooks, etc). Christie Brinkley selling beauty products to make women look youthful is like some major league [...]
This fromthe Kiwi reminds me of what may be my favorite line from the Gilmore Girls. The only problem is the blog post was about Green Day and the quotation is about Coldplay. But it still triggered my memory. Two members of a band have just wrapped up a successful performance.:
BRIAN: We [...]
Reading the Jolly Blogger’s response was the first time I was introduced to Barna’s book, Revolution. While I appreciated JB’s reply, my overwhelming feeling was one of horror. After all, while Reformed blogger’s will know better, Barna has been respected by Evangelicals at large. What about other Protestants? Will they buy [...]
Accusing a Christian teacher of “redefining” some doctrine always sounds rather serious, and sometimes it actually is. With the rise of Modernism, it has been a recurring problem for false teachers to use Christian language to mean something else.
But in such cases what happens is that the definition of a word is entirely changed [...]
There is an argument going on (which I’ve tasted but not kept up with) over whether one would derive the doctrine of the resurrection from Exodus 3.6 if Jesus hadn’t told us to. One of the questions involved is whether or not “grammatical-historical exegesis” gives us reliable results.
The problem with this is that there [...]
Every Christian knows what happened on Christmas (whatever date that was) was a necessary condition and an essential part of God’s work to liberate his people from sin and guilt.
But often times what happened is described in ways that leave our understanding anemic and our explanation of the person and work of Christ lacking. [...]
I’m not claiming to have any major knowledge of N.T. Wright. Like I said before, I just started reading a little bit of his stuff . . . wondering what all the fuss is about. I wonder whether this guy is really a heretic, or whether the real problem is a high concentration of trigger-happy [...]
Not much to blog these days but Christas Eve is tomorrow and I am probably not going to bother to take time to do an entry like this later. So here it is now:
The Festivals of Christ and the Saints. Moreover, if in Christian Liberty the churches religiously celebrate the memory of the Lord’s [...]
It is striking that, to my knowledge, none of his confreres in either the “Reformed” Catholic or Federal revisionist camp has deemed the doctrine of penal substitution sufficiently important to mount a pubic defense…. Remember that the next time you’re tempted to look to Tim Enloe or James Jordan or Doug Wilson or Peter [...]
Saw Narnia Saturday. Liked it over all.
The problem with Aslan:
1: Lion’s face seemed over large.
2. Lion seemed too small (someone pointed out to me that his size wasn’t consistent; and that part would be accurate. I just think he should have averaged a larger size).
3. Seemed like a servant to something ultimately impersonal. [...]
John Milton thought so, and objected strongly to Presbyterianism for at least that reason.
And he was right in his analysis. Consider, for example, the Form of Presbyterial Church government from the Westminster Assembly:
THE pastor is an ordinary and perpetual officer in the church, prophesying of the time of the gospel.
First, it belongs to his [...]
NYT: “Secular Democracy Goes on Trial“
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Rich Lusk is podcasting his sermons!
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And so is the typical conversation about Christmas in the Anglo-American conservative Reformed world.
But for needed corrective and even a chuckle, check out Jim Jordan on the menace of Chinese food.
It’s delightful.
–Originally posted 10:21 pm – December 14, 2005
ADDENDUM:
I just realized I must quote this:
There is still more. Few modern Christians have studied the classic [...]
This was just pointed out to me:
It is no doubt possible to devise a service which isn’t, technically and legally, a ‘service of blessing’, but which is so in all but name, and which the wider world will see straightforwardly as a ‘gay wedding’. I am bound to say that I regard the creation of [...]
The “story-nature” of Biblical revelation is not only an incredible find for understanding God’s word better, it also greatly enhances our ability to preach. Stories resonate with people in ways that other communications can’t touch.
But it really bothers me that I am perceiving (or think I am perceiving: maybe I’m wrong) a decrease in [...]
Wow. I wonder if someone was watching the Jonah movie.
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If a husband sleeps with an artifical replica of his wife when she is away is this a sign of his devoted love for her? Am I guilty of denying the “embodiedness” of marital love by calling such a practice a perversion?
Can you imagine a such a husband, when confronted, claiming his accuser must [...]
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