Babel: What is the story really about?
The story of the Tower of Babel is a conspicuous one. Its a story about how humans were all together and decided to build a city to remain together. Ironically, they are forced to separate because of it. What is this story really about?
Word of the Week | July 27, 2019
To the Wise | Contrary to what we are told, grace requires some things of us. In Numbers 2 the 12 tribes of Israel are grouped together. Each group of three families was assigned to sit at the four sides of the camp – North, South, East, and West. If we draw out how the […]
30 Ways To Say ‘Gather’ | PART 2
All these words are translated as ‘gather’ but what do they all actually mean? קו Strong’s# H6960 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. Gen […]
Character vs. Will
As I struggled with the state of my progress towards purpose, I read about the ‘Big Five’ personality traits in one of my grad classes. It introduced me to a side of myself that I was aware of but that I hadn’t given much thought to. That is, my extreme introversion. I decided it might […]
Us Against the World?
Sorry I’ve been gone for a while. This move and master’s program is whooping my tail. Anyway, I had this thought the other night and wanted to share it… There are many ways one might view the differences among us all. Often it’s easier to determine that ‘they’ are like this world and are therefore […]
2 Letters & 30 Ways To Say ‘Gather’ | PART 1
As I did my regular biblical studies I noticed that more than 30 different Hebrew words were being translated as ‘gather’. Being the curious type, I searched the old testament for the word to see just how many words were interpreted as ‘gather’ and why. The nature of the Hebrew language and Hebraic thought tells […]
Ecclesiastes 2
1 I did say I in my mind go she now I have been covered in her joy and perceive her in function and these are also empty. In my mind, I said it is going now. I have been covered in joy and saw function, but these too are empty. 2 To laugh I […]
Ecclesiastes 1
A word of a gatherer, son of David, King in Jerusalem. The empty empty ones say gathering of empty empty ones are empty empty. The emptiness of empty ones: Sayings gathered of the emptiness of empty ones which are empty empty. From her/what more to humanity in all his aspirations which he aspires under the […]
God, DNA, and Memory
Deuteronomy and other places in scripture suggests that we will someday remember all things that ever existed. How is this possible? Because ask pleading to the days first ones which existed he to your face to portion of the day which filled, God, Humanity upon the earth and to the from end of the heavens […]
Who or What is GOD?
I woke up at 6:00 this morning with this very thought on my mind. “What is god?” The night before I had studied the Book of Haggai. (I will upload the translation soon) In Haggai 2:12 I came across an unfamiliar Hebrew word, ‘Bagodu‘ (בגדו), translated here as clothing or garment but also interpreted as […]