Friday, May 31, 2013

But it's not the American way!

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The real culprits in most modern-day health problems are excesses , not deficiencies. It is the subtraction of these excesses that will solv...

That's a mouthful!

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Based on the cultic apparatuses found in the domestic structures, we can conclude that the predominant ritual actions were libation rites wi...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

So true

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Wealth can ransom a person’s life, but the poor don’t even receive threats. (Proverbs 13:8 CEB)
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Thought for today

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The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel. (Proverbs 12:10 NIV)
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Can you say deception?

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The greatest danger we face from modern medicine is not the risk of misusing short-cut Pain Relief Goal procedures. The greatest danger in n...

Ancestor cult?

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Both textual and archaeological evidence supports a variety of forms of mortuary rites and ritual communication with the dead. This evidence...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Count the cost

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Modern medical science has given us wonderful gifts, but these gifts have not been free. The astonishing technical capability of medicine, w...

Eternal supply

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The relatively small number of vessels that accompanied each inhumation does not support the supposition that they served as supplies either...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Thought for today

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Surely the righteous will never be shaken; they will be remembered forever. They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The power of addiction

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..if you give a laboratory rat a choice between cocaine and food, he will choose the cocaine, because cocaine is a more powerful cause of pl...

The dead

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The significant omission of specialized vessels for libation and incense burning is perhaps best understood by presuming that the dead in Šĕ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The wrong questions

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Some people ask if there is any difference between nutrients in 'chemical' or 'organic' form, but that is really asking the ...

What of the dead

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The concept of the deification of the dead as a universal religious phenomenon belongs to the evolutionist paradigm of 19th-century scholars...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Thought for today

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Does he who fashioned the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see? Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches ...

How high?

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May it not also be the case that some have opposed the doctrine [of holiness] really because it raises a higher standard of personal holines...

The power of a blessing

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Blessing and curses were not magical acts that merely manifested the inherent power of words but were ritual acts of speech that mediated or...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Some good stuff

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I've been busy getting the cabins ready for the season—we're officially open! But, only two are really ready as of this moment—an...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Taste good?

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Our tongue is able to distinguish five tastes: sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and savory. Sugar covers up all four. It covers up salty (trail mi...

Firstborn

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As concluded by Milgrom (2000: 1590), “There is no evidence that the firstborn, except in crisis situations (e.g., 2 Kgs 3:27), were sacrifi...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Final excerpt from Hannah Whitall Smith's book

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Just as light drives out darkness, so does the realized presence of God drive out sin, and the soul that by faith abides in His presence kno...