The Brazen Serpent and the Meaning of Passing by Nehushtan Most who expect my book Passing by Nehushtan to deal mostly with the Brazen Serpent directly come away disappointed. I…

Book of John: The Prophetic Speech of Jesus from the OT   J. Barton Payne’s Dictionary of Biblica Prophecy is considered the standard on the subject, but I think we…

 Prophetic Theory and the Necessity of Messianic Prophecy “Prophecy as Fact” is meant in two senses: Messianic prophecy is self-attesting, and therefore God’s method of self-attestation, used to show himself,…

A Passing by Nehushtan Mission Statement We need to think about one key subject and three derived subjects that my schoolhouse analogy brings up. See https://passingbynehushtan.com/2010/04/14/sacred-symbology-a-few-things/ 1. One, the premise that…

This is an article in a series. Please see below the first part on church history, Church History: What Went Wrong? part 1 Liberal Madness, Conservative Treachery, and Jesus: part…

The novelist Thomas Pynchon said, "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” Not that the question "what is the word of God?"…

Luke 10: The Good Samaritan: A Prophetic Think Tank This is one parable that, more than any other, through the lens of the word of our divines, through the lens…

Noun Norming Transcendence? This is about Christ and Transcendence, and whether we believe those two should be together. The meaning of Christ’s parables is in our churchy exegesis for centuries…

Psalms 110:1 and Christology I was reading an online debate yesterday between Trinitarians and those who deny the Deity of Christ1, represented mostly by Jehovah’s Witnesses, mainstream Judaism, and Unitarians.…

This is an article in a series. Please see: Christ vs. the Hermeneutical Death Spiral, part 1 Christ and the Hermeneutical Death Spiral Part 2 Christ and the Hermeneutical Death…

Sacred Symbology in Relation to Conservatism and Liberalism This is an article in a series. Please see: Sacred Symbology part 1: Our Hidden Problem This is not a stand-alone article. Its…

Here is a little experiment. Don't take it too seriously now, just open up your synapses and let the possibility sink in. Its a paraphrase of a part of the…