Essay Cosmological Argument 21 Feb 201816 Jan 2023 I figured that no collection of essays would be complete without an argument for the existence of God. Now in the scriptures, the Hebrew name for God, the most sacred…
Essay One Creation 14 Aug 201730 Mar 2022 With this essay I intend to address a very common observation about scripture that I constantly run across, even (and especially!) in the halls of academia. It’s the notion that…
Essay The Solution of Evil 26 Jul 201731 Dec 2021 Okay, it’s just time to thump out some text on the problem of evil. As I write, I confess freely that this essay, much like the last one, is reactionary.…
Essay The Remnant 2 Jun 201731 Dec 2021 The last bit of writing I was working on before taking a break to work on some other things was an essay on the Problem of Evil. I ended up…
Essay The Word of God 3 Sep 201631 Dec 2021 This essay follows one that I wrote recently where I advocated an interest in typology as an approach to reading scripture. In that essay, I defined types as being not…
Essay Symbol in History 5 Aug 201631 Dec 2021 The rabbis of the Talmud, and even before in the Messiah's day, mentioned four methods of interpreting scripture: pshat, drash, sod, and remez. Pshat is the literal grammatical meaning. According…