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I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
In most Bible translations, there’s a story that goes like this: Abraham’s son, Isaac, went out in a field to meditate one evening. He then looked up and saw a woman named Rebekah approaching on a camel. She saw him and dismounted her camel and they were married shortly later. But there’s another way to…
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The Foreshadow
Abraham and Sarah had gotten a good laugh from God’s promise that they would have a child, and they instead worked out their own way to secure a descendant. First, they planned on handing the family legacy down to Abraham’s chief servant, Eliezer. But then they decided to resort to a form of sex slavery…
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It Was Right There All Along
We’ve all had that moment where we can’t find the remote, and then we discover it on the coffee table in front of us, where it had been sitting all along. How on earth did we miss it? It wasn’t even hidden! Perhaps that’s how Hagar felt when she saw a well right in front…
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Angelic Inspection
The literal translation of the word angel is messenger. These divine postmen not only pass along messages from God, but they return to Heaven with messages for God. As a part of God’s divine council, they weigh in on issues they’ve witnessed and offer input when God desires it. For example, God sent some angels…
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Children of Light
In Ephesians 5, Paul talks about light, darkness, and our place in it. Jamin dives into this theme on both a scientific and spiritual level.
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Abraham and Jonah
Many view God as an angry and wrathful entity that’s doing everything he can to hold himself back from killing us all for our sin and disobedience. The Bible, however, has a very different perspective. He didn’t bring about the flood until the whole world had turned their hearts toward evil except for one man.…
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Cosmic Patience
If you condense all existence into a one-year calendar, every day would be about 40 million years and every month would be about 1 billion years. On this scale, all recorded history has only been happening in the last seconds of that calendar. God is patient. He often moves slower than we want. He fulfills…
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Like Sand and Stars
Scholars say that the concept of resurrection is hardly found in the Old Testament, but Jesus seemed to feel differently. For example, the Sadducees didn’t believe in resurrection and only held the first five books of the Bible as sacred, yet Jesus thought they still had reason to believe in resurrection from those books alone.…
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It’s a Bunch of Crap
Of all the marks someone might make on their body to remember a promise God made to them, circumcision sure seems like a weird one. But then again, when God’s promise is that you will have many descendants, what better place to put a mark than on your descendant-maker? This tradition was a big deal…
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Trees and Strangers
Just as Eve “took” the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and “gave” it to “her husband,” so Sarah “took” her servant Hagar and “gave” her to “her husband” as a wife. The Bible wants you to know that this decision is the Garden of Eden all over again and…
Jamin Bradley 