Showing posts with label Bible study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bible study. Show all posts
Friday, February 28, 2025

Cereal grains in the Bible

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                                     Wheat field, North Carolina Cereal grains include corn (maize), rice, wheat, spelt, rye, oats, barley, ...
Sunday, February 09, 2025

Sunspots 976

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Things I have spotted that may be of interest to others:  The BBC reports on the discovery of very large squid . (or is it squids?) A-z anim...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Salt-Bible study

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There are about 40 occurrences of the word, salt, in the Bible. Here are some of them: Salt was part of the offerings to Yahweh: Leviticus ...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Uzza, or Uzzah

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2 Samuel 6:1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. 2 David arose, and went with all the people who we...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

rivers in the Bible

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Rivers are mentioned often in the Bible. The Bible search tool I use says that there are 188 uses of the word, "river" in the Bibl...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Immigration and migration, what the Bible says (repost)

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This was a fairly long post on what the Bible says about how to treat immigrants. Thanks for reading, or re-reading.
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

No Abraham, no Moses: Major events in history, according to Answers in Genesis

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Answers in Genesis (AiG) tells us that the Bible is "a history book that reveals the major events of history that are foundational to ...
Monday, October 23, 2023

"An Open Letter to Ken Ham"

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The Sparks blog has posted an open letter to Ken Ham , which is well worth reading.
Monday, October 02, 2023

Dinosaurs: (Mis)interpreting Genesis: How the Creation Museum Misunderstands the Near Eastern Context of the Bible, by Ben Stanhope

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I have recently read the book that has the same title as this post. (I'll call it Stanhope throughout the rest of this post. I'll al...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Is Genesis straightforward historical narrative, part 2

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In recent post on this blog, I argued that Genesis is not straightforward historical narrative . Many Christ-loving Bible scholars had alrea...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Is the science of the Bible always correct? The role of the kidneys

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(Image from Wikimedia Commons) The Blueletter Bible has this entry for the Hebrew word kilyâ. It translates that word as the kidneys, or t...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

The Firmament (or Expanse)

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This post is one in a series on the interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2.  Ezekiel  1:22 Over the head of the living creature there was the li...
Friday, September 01, 2023

The Bible and culture, and so-called errors in the Bible

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Literal or not? In a previous post , I considered genres in the Bible. The Bible is God's Word, and living by it should be very importan...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Bible -- historical or not? Genres in Bible literature

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Genres of scripture Christians often think that the Bible is a lot like a history book -- it tells things as they happened, in order, givi...