God said, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” When Adam ate of the tree they didn’t die that […]
Category: Reflections from Dan
Death
The idea of death has come up several times recently. We need to look at it. There is a rather common piece of machinery called an engine. It is a collection of metals, fluids and other materials that are carefully shaped and fitted together. It may even be an object […]
Word of God
Words are containers into which we pack ideas. Every field of study has own special set of words – its own vocabulary. At the moment we are introducing “the word of God.” We often write things down so we don’t forget. We may write things down for permanent record of […]
The Original Bad
God’s love maximizes options. As He designed the universe everything had a particular task. It was designed to work in certain ways. Everything had certain properties. We can all recognize that two things cannot occupy the place at the same time. This enables us to piece lumber together and build […]
Sin
“The soul who sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4, 20), “For the wages of sin is death” Rom 6:23). Now that is some tough language. Sounds like we do well to look into this. Let’s lay down several passages to get started. Perhaps the most famous one reads like this in […]
Some Words Needed
Sometimes we find ourselves in puzzling, even heated conversations only to find out something was misunderstood. Words are containers into which we pack ideas. At times both of us need to peek into the containers to see if the contents match. My caterpillar may be eating up the tomatoes while […]
But I Don’t Read Greek
“God had a library assembled into a book, a permanent record, so we could navigate a difficult detour back to the main road of life.” That is how we ended the last discussion. There are some things that need to be addressed about the Bible before we go to other […]
Genial Genealogies Part 3
The New Testament is really rather brief. Much of what needs to be known about God is in the Old Testament, which is rather extensive in demonstrating the outcomes of living by God’s wisdom – or not, as history and biographies in general are quite vocal about. The Old Testament […]
Genial Genealogies Part 2
Once the Israelites left Egypt they soon assembled around Mount Sinai. There God took the mountain as a pulpit from which to address “His people.” God managed to get through the Ten Commandments before the people overloaded and shut down the proceedings. They asked that Moses go up to God, […]