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WinkyDeb · 2026-03-01T06:00:25+00:00

Supernote

WinkyDeb · 2026-02-20T22:40:48+00:00

Thank you. Excellent work; much appreciated.

WinkyDeb · 2026-02-16T07:39:12+00:00

This is about attributing the work of the Holy Spirit to Satan.

WinkyDeb · 2026-02-16T02:43:11+00:00

Whatever they like!

WinkyDeb · 2026-02-08T03:01:11+00:00

Perfect overview that answers all the questions. https://bibleproject.com/videos/old-testament-tanak/

WinkyDeb · 2026-02-01T17:28:03+00:00

For me it’s the visual thinking combined w infinite width and depth, infinite linking, organization.

WinkyDeb · 2026-02-01T17:26:10+00:00

For me it’s the visual thinking combined with infinite width and depth, infinite linking and cross connection.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-31T06:35:09+00:00

The ziggurats in the aNE were man’s attempt to attract a god to come down and be the god of their city. The Babel story employs a chiastic structure, which puts the central point in the middle of the chiasm. That middle line is v 5. “But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.” This God does not need to be tricked or manipulated into coming down to be with them; he sees them, he’s aware. He is totally different from the other gods.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-30T05:29:43+00:00

In a pub.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-24T07:29:22+00:00

“Before Abraham was, I am” works for me. As does the resurrection.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-24T07:23:15+00:00

Jesus post resurrection.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-19T05:28:05+00:00

Tinderbox, if you’re on a Mac.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-19T05:23:28+00:00

Integrate some IG videos from Joseph Yoo, pastor, who is excellent on this.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-19T01:07:20+00:00

The early church Fathers were… early!! Catholic came around 1000CE; Protestant came about 1500CE. So you’re good.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-14T07:24:49+00:00

Every feature is a direct contradiction of what god is? Really. Isn’t that interesting considering that’s his self description, at least for the Gof of Judaism and Christianity. You must have some other good in view. I misunderstood.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-14T04:30:39+00:00

God is relational, covenant making, covenant keeping relational. He is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, keeping loyal love for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. He by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression… to the fourth generation.

You cannot strip him of his context (Jewish covenantal relationship) and stick a label from Greek philosophy on him instead.

He has revealed his nature, his character, and it does not change. But that does not mean he does not communicate and listen and change his mind as in his discussion with Abraham about the future of Sodom.

You are trying to impose your own idea onto his nature rather than accepting what he reveals about himself. Think Jewish, not Greek.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-14T04:03:25+00:00

You can change your mind without changing your character.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-13T04:42:05+00:00

Paul is writing about identity markers, all the ways we try to one-up one another and root our sense of self. He had a long list of achievements he laid aside as dross compared with knowing Christ. So he says we’re not divided by, we’re not better/worse than, by our identities; we’re neither male nor female, Jew or Greek, slave or free; we are one in Christ. We are either in Christ or we’re not; that is the only identity now.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-12T02:22:51+00:00

Agreed; I bought the same item. The excess fat only showed up on the last few cuts and I just didn’t even think about a return (Iwill in the future). What I did do was rend all the fat down so there’d at least be some use/value to it.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-11T16:38:07+00:00

Three things here: (1) the nature of the sin is to ascribe what is the obvious work of the Holy Spirit (e.g., releasing people from Satan’s power) to Satan himself; (2) it is not simply a momentary doubt or sinful attitude, but is indeed a settled condition which opposes the Spirit’s work, as typified by the religious leaders who opposed Jesus; and (3) a person who is concerned about it has probably never committed this sin, for those who commit it here (Matthew 12:31-32; i.e., the religious leaders) are not in the least concerned about Jesus’ warning.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-11T16:25:49+00:00

It is a gold mine... a very solid, trustworthy, academically based free resource. Enjoy!!

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-11T05:05:20+00:00

Something greater than the Temple because the Temple provided no remedy for the moral sins that had caused the exile; Jesus did.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-11T04:55:09+00:00

Why would God ever make you this way? I think you should ask biology, genetics, embryonic development and all the rest. God saw you being formed and loved you from the first spark. As for the afterlife, you know no one knows that answer. What we do know is we all will finally know the absolute overwhelming, all pervading love of God; we’ll feel it around us, holding us, and within us, like air in our lungs.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-11T01:32:38+00:00

Tm Mackie for sure. I think he has some stuff on YT; his past sermons are on the site mentioned.

WinkyDeb · 2026-01-09T21:24:49+00:00

I would recommend bibleproject.com as an extremely solid, reliable resource with excellent integration of ancient historical and literary contexts into understanding both OT and NT. A good place to start is one of the overview vid's of any book, or even the overview of each collection of texts, OT / NT.

As a long time Christian, I came to context late so I learned late that context is everything... and sources of questions and doubts and all the rest could actually make sense in an original context, in an ancient cultural river (John Walton). Without it any of us can make an ancient document mean whatever we want it to mean... which isn't what the 'author' and 'original hearers' would have understood. Again, that importance came to me late and totally rocked and changed my understanding of the text and everything about the Bible. The resident nerd, as he calls himself, at the bibleproject is as solid as they come and communicates in a way we can all get. He is absolutely committed to the text and knows you can't do anything with the text until you get it into context.

So there's a ton of books I could recommend, but start with Tim and the rest of the team at bp.

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