Monthly Archives: December 2024

This could be the shortest post ever. In my reading this morning I noticed one of the most egregious examples of religious massaging of the text I have seen. John 10:10b says ἐγὼ ἦλθον ἵνα ζωὴν ἔχωσιν καὶ περισσὸν ἔχωσιν. The NIV says I have come that they may have life, and have it toContinue reading “Abundance”

καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς συνοχὴ ἐθνῶν ἐν ἀπορίᾳ ἤχους θαλάσσης καὶ σάλου Luke 21:25b, SBL Greek Testament Just a note to comfort those who feel that to acknowledge even the possibility of climate change would be tantamount to denying the Lord. Relax, He talked about it. In Luke’s version of the “Synoptic Apocalypse”, we readContinue reading “Jesus foretells climate change”