Responding to Temptation?, post 2

While thinking on the series that is commonly called “The Temptation of Christ”, I thought about several other things to note and their correlations.  So, I wanted to break the post into two separate ones.  First post can be found here:  Thoughts on Temptation of Christ, post 1 But first let me get something off …

Thoughts on Temptation of Christ, post 1

Thoughts on Christ’s temptation.  First, let us understand the word “tempt”.  So few of us truly understand this word.  Since the Bible was authorized by the English, then we could use the English meaning.  It appears the word was a Middle English word from “tempten”, maybe borrowed from Old French “tempter”, coming from the Latin …

Self, An Answer, and Jōb

NOTE: CROSS POSTED ON MY OTHER BLOG I want to address a comment given to me about my opinions of Jōb.  The comment was, (not a quote), “if your god is so great why doesn’t he tell you why you are given pain?”  Well, that is so simple that anyone should be able to answer …