Tag Archives: hebrew

It's All About Who You Know

"Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, 'With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.'" (NIV) "Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, 'I have gotten a manchild with […]

My First ESV Review: Psalm 51

I haven't received my free ESV Bible yet, but I thought I'd get the review ball rolling anyhow. I'll start off with something easy - Psalm 51. It's my favorite psalm and may even be my favorite bit of Scripture. I'll review the lexical and grammatical choices made in translating this chapter. Below is the psalm from the RSV (my favorite […]

And the Wind Cried Mary

Sadly, I still haven't had time to properly respond to Ed Heckman's difficulties with the Church's beliefs concerning Mary. I did get one answer to my call for rebuttals from the peanut gallery. Here's Anonymous' defense of Marian doctrines. The opinions expressed by him/her may or may not reflect […]

A Wicked and False Religion?

Like I said, the Church has PR problems. Rand, of A Pattern of Sound Words, asserts: "A Christian Roman Catholic, to me, is as opposite as a Nazi Jew. One cannot be a follower of Christ and be a follower of Romanism at the same time. Why? Because the Romanist worships […]