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PHall | May 11, 2014
Both Joseph and Daniel teach us how to become successful. While we might want to point out their tenacity, don’t give up drive, intelligence, and unwillingness to take no for an answer, that is not how they succeeded. Here you go; make sure you right this down: First, become a slave of a foreign nation. […]
PHall | May 9, 2014
Cain dismissively answers God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Cain is sarcastically saying he isn’t responsible for Abel; he isn’t Abel’s baby sitter, although many years ago he might have been as the older brother. Such an attitude cautions us on how we answer and treat one another. In Iain Provan’s Seriously Dangerous Religion, he […]
PHall | April 19, 2014
In this age where liberal idealism is so entrenched and everyone is offended by anything, even the following two irrefutable statements would be condemned as sexist and intolerant: “males make better men than females;” “females make better women than males.”
PHall | April 19, 2014
Wedding ceremonies often point out that woman did not come out of Adam’s head so that she would rule over him; nor from his feet so that he would run over her; but from his side, close to his heart. Romantic, but maybe not the real reason why. Out of Adam’s side came his bride, […]
PHall | November 22, 2013
Genesis 3 and John 3 – Satan in disguise as a serpent brings death to the world by belief in a lie. Jesus in symbol of a serpent brings life to the world by belief in the truth: “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be […]
PHall | November 9, 2013
The Garden of Gethsemane is connected to the Garden of Eden, where God walks among men. The cross of Golgotha is also connected to the Garden of Eden. When in sin, mankind recognizes their sinfulness, see their nakedness and live in shame only to be covered by God’s grace. When Jesus becomes the sin offering, […]
PHall | August 7, 2013
The difference between a contradiction and a paradox is that a paradox seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a truth which is generally understood. I find divine paradoxes to be rather different. They can still seem self-contradictory or absurd, and they still express truth, but they must be accepted without being generally understood. […]
PHall | July 26, 2013
Genesis 3:15 – I am wondering if I have totally missed what this verse is saying. Somehow I got the impression that the Seed (Jesus) would crush the serpent’s (Satan’s) head while the serpent (Satan) only bruised the heel of the Seed (Jesus). Just picture someone stomping on a snake to kill it, and that […]
PHall | July 22, 2013
The period of the Judges is cyclical: Sinning – Suffering – Supplication – Salvation. The Salvation included the period of the judge’s leadership. Theologian James B. Jordan said the entire Bible has three recurring themes in which I will add a second: Creation – Corruption* – Collapse – Re-creation. I added Corruption (could be called […]
PHall | June 7, 2013
To see beyond the human skin; Not red, yellow, black, brown or white; Is seeing God’s image within; Seeing beyond mere human sight; God’s likeness all equally share; Using God’s eyes is how we see; The divine image we do bare; Sons of man and God, we must see.