Touch Not Mine Anointed…
THE TEXT 1 Chronicles 16:22 (KJV) — 22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, And do my prophets no harm The Context 1 Chronicles 16:17–21 (KJV) — 17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, And to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 18 Saying, Unto thee will I give...
God Did Not “Robe Himself in Flesh.”
We have all heard the phrase, "God robed Himself in the flesh," but I want to take a quick moment and explain succinctly why we should avoid this phrase and why this phrase is theologically inaccurate. John 1:14 — 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and...
The Progressive Plot of Exodus 9:9-22
9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our...
The “Voice of God walking in the Garden”
In a postlapsarian world, it is difficult to imagine life in the Garden. First, much of what we hear on life in the Garden is laden with misinformation and/or oral tradition within hermeneutic communities. Take, for example, the commonly held idea that Adam daily walked with God in the cool of the day. Nowhere does scripture substantiate such a claim, but we have come to view this idea as sacrosanct. Of course, this also lends to the next unsubstantiated claim that likely gave rise to the first; the voice of God walking in the Garden in a literal sense.
The Wife-Sister Motif in Scripture
Three stories that are central to the Book of Genesis; namely, 12:10-20, 20:1-18, and 26:6-11, all tell a similar story that has stood out as a source of consternation for many readers. Essentially, the stories involve a patriarch that is visiting (passing through) a...
Use of Merism in the Bible
I remember the first time that I came across the word merism during a lighthearted study on the various literary devices used throughout the Bible. Oh, and for those who don’t know, there are quite a bit of literary devices used in the Bible, such as: Simile...
