Articles exploring human nature, conscience, freedom, moral responsibility, sin, and the biblical meaning of the image of God.
How an investigation into spirits and Greek philosophy opens an unexpected perspective on Creation, Israel, and the history of Truth I Set Out in Search …
Who created Death? God? The Devil? Adam? Or the philosophers? The question seems absurd only until we open Paul’s epistles. There we encounter a Death …
There is a question hidden beneath almost every major religion: What is wrong with the human being? Christianity answers with the Fall. Humanity disobeyed, crossed a divine …
How Plato’s Epithymia Entered the Bible There is one command in the received Decalogue that does not belong to the same moral world as the others. “Do …
When God Began to Need Executioners There is a moment in the biblical story when the character of God seems to change so abruptly that …
Were There Really Ten Commandments? The expression “The Ten Commandments” is so deeply embedded in religious memory that almost no one stops to ask the …
If you want to form a people, you do not need to control every person individually. Give them a common story.Once the story becomes theirs, …
The command is familiar enough to have become almost invisible: “Remember the Sabbath day.” For centuries, Jews and Christians have fought over what that remembrance requires. Which …
Why Jesus Melek Is King, Not Mediator Christian theology has made mediation so central to its understanding of Jesus that the underlying assumption is rarely …
Conscience, Forgiveness, and Human Destiny in Melekist Theology When the books are opened, what will God look for? Will He examine the life each person …
Perhaps you have understood the Melekist Message and still wonder whether QUMAH is worth doing. If conscience has already answered before you enter the water, …
One of the strongest theological ideas promoted by historic Christianity is that, on the evening before His arrest, Jesus supposedly “instituted” a sacred ritual – …