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I agree with that, but... Job seems to be aware of the Canaanite 'council of the gods' as well as a couple of mythological monsters from their pantheon. If you're looking for Jewish monotheism, Job is strange place to look. It seems to be not originally a Jewish book. Nor is it explicitly...

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

I agree. Setting expectations in a relationship is key. That involves some kind of negotiation. In OT times, that was done between the groom and the bride's father, but it should probably involve the bride!

My thinking is that God is the source of ALL things. Satan isn't the source of anything, he can only twist or mis-use what is already given by God. So... all things are lawful, when used in their appropriate time and situation. And... all things can be evil, if applied in the wrong time or...

The brightest light casts the deepest shadow. How could mercy be delivered, if there was never any real danger, nothing to be "saved" from?

Wrath is ὀργή in Greek. I can think of how that could be "love" but I don't think that's what the Bible intended. o_O

What you're referring to sounds a lot like the Turing Test (except with images rather than verbal prompts). It's pretty normal to feel unease at computer-generated responses. Alan Turing (who invented the computer) proposed that overcoming this hurdle was a measuring stick for computer...

Also, the original quote about Elijah's return was from Zephaniah, so... We can probably add Joshua (the High Priest at the time Zephaniah wrote his book) to that list.

That's the pattern... After Moses, Joshua After Elijah, Elisha After John, Yeshua Shua is Hebrew for "saves"

Say more. Who? When? Perhaps not, but the Wadi Musa has had that name since before there was such a thing as Muslims and before Muhammed lived. An interesting topic. Engineers say that the specifications of the Ark listed in Scripture do not work. The weight of a solid gold lid of that...

You need to use that wildcard (*) when searching: Lev 21:14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, [or] an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. Lev 22:13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is...

They need to repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929 - the legislation that caps the number of reps at 435. This would result in the Constitutional requirement of one congressman for each 30,000 citizens being enforced - about 11,000 Congressmen. You'd have to repeal the requirement of...

Moses' body was never found, and it seems the Lord intended this, knowing that the Israelites would make a shrine of his burial place and worshiping him as if he were a god. But there are several places named after him, notably the Wadi Musha which still exists in Jordan to this day.

It's in there...

Nahhh. Israel has lived side-by-side with the Palestinians in the West Bank for a long time. The two have mutually cooperating governments and the Palestinians there have their own sovereignty and freedom within their own borders. It's a pretty good place to live. It's only Gaza that has a...

My understanding is that the pre-flood genealogies are there to show the decline of mankind. Both start with Enoch = "foundation," progress to Jared/Irad = "descends," and end with Lamech = "low place." Also, the 2 genealogies appear to be the same genealogy with a few differences on either...

I follow this and agree so far In 1st John, "us" seems to be the apostles, and "they" is John's audience: 1John 1: 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 For the...

I don't think they are The word used there is often used synonymously with 'Gentiles' and unbelieving Jews still aren't Gentiles

'Identifies' is a some pretty modern terminology. I don't subscribe to the modern notion of self-identification as having intrinsic worth or veracity. People are out there identifying as ponies, kittens, and aliens. That doesn't make it so. John's gospel (or rather Jesus' teachings in his...

Not so much Paul. It's the LXX usage of kosmos I'm incorporating.