[This is part of our series on THE OTHER, i.e. the UNchosen or anyone who is not in the line of the CHOSEN, the line of Jacob/Israel. Related posts: The UNchosen – Esau/Edom – A Second Look The UNchosen — “Call me Ishmael” The UNchosen – My servant Caleb – a different spirit We Sinaites […]
[This is part of our series on THE OTHER, i.e. the UNchosen or anyone who is not in the line of the CHOSEN, the line of Jacob/Israel. Related posts: The UNchosen – Esau/Edom – A Second Look The UNchosen — “Call me Ishmael” The UNchosen – My servant Caleb – a different spirit We Sinaites […]
Read moreWhat would you have expected to read in this post if the title grabbed you enough to check it out? Would you have expected that this would be about the Revelator-God on Sinai, the God of Israel, the God of all nations? Well, in an indirect way, this is about Him, YHWH and what […]
Read more[First posted in 2014, part of our series of commentaries on Torah, specifically the book of Exodus. When we were Christians, we were taught that Christians are under “grace, not “law” because of what the Christian Savior — God Himself as Son-Man, Jesus the Christ — had accomplished on earth. What accomplishment is that? Obeying […]
Read more[First posted on June 7, 2012. The Hebrew Scriptures often communicate divine truths in fictional as well as historical narratives. We read story after story about God in conversation or interacting with men from Genesis through Deuteronomy. Teachings, instructions and laws as well as examples are embedded in these stories. That is why they […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2013, reposted 2014; absolutely worth revisiting in 2019! This 2nd chapter of the book of beginnings has 2 highlights: the Sabbath, and humankind. There are enough articles about the Sabbath posted on this website, but we have not explored the specifics in the making of ‘humankind’ to where we are satisfied. […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012, buried in our pile of over 1000 articles since we opened this website that year. When a visitor clicks forgotten posts, it gives us reason to revisit and check if still relevant and still reflective of our Sinaite thinking today. Rarely if ever have we changed our position on […]
Read more[First posted February 24, 2014. We have since updated to adding yet another translation, this time by Richard Elliott Friedman who authored THE HIDDEN BOOK IN THE BIBLE which we will be featuring soon in the category MUST READ/MUST OWN. The reason his translation is mentioned here is because he uses a different word for […]
Read more[We offer no discussion here, simply Scripture verses. Translations: For the Torah, Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses; for the TNK, AST/Artscroll Tanach, for the New Testament, ESV/English Standard Version.] Genesis/Bereshith 22:7-8 7 Yitzhak said to Avraham his father, he said: Father! He said: Here I am, He said: Here are the fire and the wood, […]
Read more[This is part of our series on THE OTHER, i.e. the UNchosen or anyone who is not in the line of the CHOSEN, the line of Jacob/Israel. Related posts: The UNchosen – Esau/Edom – A Second Look The UNchosen — “Call me Ishmael” The UNchosen – My servant Caleb – a different spirit We Sinaites […]
Read more[We offer no discussion here, simply Scripture verses. Translations: For the Torah, Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses; for the TNK, AST/Artscroll Tanach, for the New Testament, ESV/English Standard Version.] Genesis/Bereshith 22:7-8 7 Yitzhak said to Avraham his father, he said: Father! He said: Here I am, He said: Here are the fire and the wood, […]
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