Archive for 'Spiritual notes'

Check the source text

July 6th, 2025 – 4:30 pm
Tagged as: Spiritual notes

One problem that a person studying the Bible will encounter rears its ugly head in this example. That is the false word. In this case, the word is gentiles.   The screenshot below of a website shows a Greek text and an English text of Amos 9:12.  The English text presented uses the word gentiles.  The [...]

The king as god in the KJV

July 6th, 2025 – 4:05 am
Tagged as: Spiritual notes

A discrepancy appears in the King James’ Version and other Masoretic Text bibles relative to the Septuagint version in the book of Jeremiah (ΙΕΡΕΜΙΑΣ). The Masoretic Text derived bibles equate the king with the deity.  The term LORD of hosts supposedly represents a place in the original language texts where the divine name appears.  That [...]

The Non Literal Baptists

March 16th, 2025 – 1:08 am
Tagged as: Spiritual notes

Michael Licona, Associate Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University, published a shocking view from his book, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach. He claims that the passage in Matt. 27:52-53 describing the raised saints coming out of their graves is apocalyptic imagery injected into the narrative and not a literal assertion of [...]

Blogging like it’s 2006

October 27th, 2024 – 7:54 pm
Tagged as: Spiritual notes

I am blogging like it’s 2006 again. Countless people write about social justice and their experienced reality and they find praise and acclaim. I stifled my words for a long while because I believed that I would be even less able to find a job without stifling my words. My experience is valuable and would [...]

Risk, religion, and temping

March 25th, 2019 – 11:27 am
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“How The Masses Deal With Risk (And Why They Remain Poor)” appeared on Capitalist Exploits in January of 2016. The quote that resonated the most was “What is also a fact is that the mean return of early stage VC investments is north of 50% per annum. This is the mean and like anything else [...]

Age of the earth and the race of Jesus

May 9th, 2018 – 11:30 am
Tagged as: Spiritual notes

Age of the earth debates from the old-age side are based on linear regressions which are parameter estimates and arguing about whether that’s a fact or not is like arguing about whether the expected value of a portfolio is a fact or not. It’s an absurd thing to claim as truth and argue about since [...]