Mark 2 and Matthew 9: Bride Chambers, New Cloth, and Jesus Have you ever wondered why we find so many speeches by Jesus in the gospels in which He groups…

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…

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…

Real Unpardonable sin. Matthew 12:23-24:  “And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow…

The question I ask now and always ask about all the many other of Jesus's problems with the Pharisees we read about: are we really supposed to believe that this…

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?"…

This is an article in a series. Here are the others: Church History: What Went Wrong? part 1 Liberal Madness, Conservative Treachery, and Jesus: part II Liberal Madness, Conservative Treachery,…

This is an article in a series. Please see: How Can a Person Die in a Sacrifice for the Sins of the World? Only One Way. Part 1. How Can…

Sacred Symbology: Our Comfort Here is Our Downfall Before getting to something about the interaction of the symbolic types, it is probably best to start with this thing I call…

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…

Mark 12: Prophetic Streams, the Shema and Prophetic Sin My main occupation is revelation, not by my cleverness or some new way of looking at the scriptures, but by something…

Prophetic Theory and Jesus Reading as I do on the Internet the many detractors of the idea of fulfilled biblical prophecy, as well as its defenders, it has occurred to…