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PHall | January 7, 2022
Small Things Both success and failure begin the same way – small. Two bookends of Genesis include both a prophecy of Jesus and of a son of Jacob, the latter ends with a cry for salvation (3:15; 49:17). Two components of each are: 1. Serpent 2. Heel Now before your eyes glaze over, there will […]
PHall | September 2, 2021
Is Suffering Good? A “Christianity without tears” (Live Not By Lies, p. 185) is a false religion. I’m beginning to realize that when God pronounced everything “good” in creation, that we imagine suffering did not exist prior to sin. Death did not exist. Disease did not exist. But does that mean no suffering, no pain, […]
PHall | September 2, 2021
Is Gender Identity Fluid? There is a new biblical argument being proffered suggesting there are not just two binary genders, but that gender identity is fluid. This is offered to counter the opposing argument that God said, “Let us make them male and female”. This new biblical argument likewise uses the Genesis creation account as […]
PHall | July 9, 2021
Who or What is the Crouching Beast? Common is the identification of the serpent in Genesis 3 with Satan and the great dragon (Revelation 12). In a similar moral tale there is a crouching animal which is sin. Have you wondered who or what is the crouching beast of Genesis 4? Let’s look at “crouches”: To […]
PHall | January 25, 2021
The Church of Babel These “Babylonians” were building a city with a tower to bridge heaven and earth. There is so much in this short pericope where this story harkens back to creation and Eden, and then to the flood. It even foreshadows exile and captivity since Babel is Babylon. A common use today is […]
PHall | November 25, 2020
One question directed three different ways could have made a lifetime of difference: 1. Eve should not have thought, “What if it is God who is wrong?” That was the serpent’s position. 2. Nor did she wonder, “What if it is the serpent who is wrong?” He claimed to know better than God. 3. Eve […]
PHall | November 10, 2020
What Does God’s Type of Husbands Look Like? It is true that the creation narratives point to authority being found in the man’s role as husband. Warning! If we only see authority, we miss leadership, and warp God’s role of a husband into something ugly. If husbands, and all men, want to truly be the […]
PHall | July 29, 2020
Bookends of Genesis: Emptiness then blessings in 7 days; 7 years of blessings then 7 years famine (emptiness) Adam and Eve placed inside Eden and then expelled; Israel outside of Egypt and then placed in Egypt. Creation of sun, moon, and stars to rule (1); Joseph dreams of sun, moon, and stars as ruling (37). […]
PHall | June 20, 2020
The Devil defeats God. God succumbs to Satan. Both of those absurdities are true if one doctrine is true. In many places, this one doctrine is taught to be false, and in many ways. One such place is the end of a parable where the application is given, meaning the application is not parabolic, but […]
PHall | May 28, 2020
About what was Eve deceived, and Adam not (1 Timothy 2:14)? Let’s look at the evidence in Genesis 3: v.1 (CSB) Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?” First […]