Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity, is God in the flesh, “very God of very God.” So we should expect to see in Jesus the same sort of things we see in Yahweh in the Old Testament.
Should We Curse Our Enemies?
Nope, It Don’t Mean Vanity: Abel and the Meaning of “Hebel” in Ecclesiastes
I started to study Ecclesiastes because I thought I found in it a kindred spirit who, like me, had thrown up his hands and given up on faith and life, who had accepted the meaninglessness of these years on planet Earth and was simply waiting out the time until death would free him. What I found instead—with the help of that former mentor I mentioned—was a path through life that doesn’t involve the bottom of a pill bottle.
Levirate Marriage: Why Tamar is More Righteous than Judah in Genesis 38
Mourning with Jephthah's Daughter
Russ Meek returns to consider once again the strange, sad story of Jepthah’s Daughter (Judges 11). He writes, “Jephthah’s daughter… gives readers an opportunity to enter into remembrance by retelling her story, and it encourages us to sit in mourning with her by recounting her own grief and the establishment of a mourning ceremony in Israel.”
