January 2020

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and his sons had no rules, no structure, no Bible, no communication from God for 100’s of years. Just circumcision is established. Jacob’s kid Judah hires and impregnates a prostitute and no one cares and God has no comment. Judah only initially condemns his daughter-in law for being umfaithful to his son. Moses 400+ years later says God hates prostitution.  Judah’s only pre Moses ‘sin’ is not giving Tamar his youngest son to be her husband according …

Seeing our own problem of Christians and bias may sound hard but actually it is even harder. First, let’s consider how Jesus viewed it. In John 8:28 Jesus says he does nothing on his own but only what the Father tells Him. Jesus was without sin and relied completely on the Father’s better perspective. Jesus very strongly faced his potential bias. How about us? Nicodemus was a highly educated member of the Jewish leadership. To Nicodemus, he said, “You must …

I noted on the front page that if Jesus goal was to set up a religion he did a bad job. Clearly, God had another goal. For example, more than 1 billion people say they are Christians as saw something in what He did do. My 7th grader is suffering as they must do presentations of three minutes each and each of them presents on the exact same topic. She fears boredom. She says this is a bad topic for …