Booting the blog back up...

This started out as a religious blog centering on communicating my thoughts about the Bible and Christian theology. I read some books on theology and early church history, developed a bunch of questions and began to rethink my view of the Bible and Christianity. It was an interesting period of searching and agnosticism, one which turned out to be beneficial as it helped me to come to a place of authenticity. Anyway, so now I'm switching the focus of this blog. I'll still post about the Bible and Christianity but I'll also throw political commentary as well. After all, Jesus Christ himself was unapologetic ally political as he critiqued the religious-political order of his day (for they were inextricably intertwined). I don't have a ton of time to write or think, but I'd like to post articles and my short commentary on them so that I can at least say that I didn't let time slip through my fingers being busy with other things in life. I like writing and thinking so, yea, I want to at least try. Hope this doesn't suck...

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Day 4 - Genesis 10 and 11

Towering Pride groundlessly proud baby The construction of the tower of Babel is a story of epic proportions. One would figure that after the flood, man would have settled down a bit (after all the score was like God +infinity Humankind -infinity). But no, every inclination of man's heart has to be all evil even from childhood. As soon as man figures out a bit of technology, he becomes groundlessly proud. Apparently, the people who settled Babylonia developed a new method of constructing buildings. They discovered that brick laying with mortar was much more effective than laying plain old stones on top of each other (eureka). With this huge discovery, they thought to themselves, 'we're not far off from figuring this whole universe thing out. Look out Higgs boson, we're gonna find you soon.' We see that they weren't just interested in building more godless societies. But additionally, they wanted to make a tower that would reach to the heavens (outer spac...

Day 7 - Genesis 18-19

Sarah, Smile There's a song by the 80's band Hall & Oates about a woman named Sarah who needed to smile. I like this song, so I posted it here. Sarah from the Bible had a hard time believing that God could help her conceive. She was probably still bitter about the whole ordeal with Hagar. And at this point, would God really give her a child and use her in his redemptive history? Well, God visits her to answer this question. In what some take as a pre-figuration of Christ, he along with two of his angels visits Abraham's residence. They are given a choice meal and then God begins to speak with Abraham. He confirms his covenant with him stating that surely he will give him a child by the next year. Abraham believes, but Sarah sarcastically laughs thinking that it's a preposterous and perhaps grandiose offer. But God retorts, "Is anything too hard for the LORD?" Of course, this would be hard for anyone to believe, but this is God, Creator of the heav...

February 11 and 12

Balaam's Prophesies and Foreshadows of Jesus Numbers 24 has one of the most amazing and awe-inspiring prophecies in the Old Testament. God essentially takes an idol-worshiping sorcerer, and reveals the coming of the Messiah through him. He says in his fourth prophecy: 17 “I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls [ b ] of [ c ] all the people of Sheth. [ d ] 18 Edom will be conquered; Seir, his enemy, will be conquered, but Israel will grow strong. 19 A ruler will come out of Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.” To some, this may seem like a long shot. But the evidence is there to support the claim that he is talking about Christ. It is traditionally held that the Magi in the second chapter of Matthew's gospel account, rega...

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