E100 week 1: Genesis 1-11: The Bible’s Prologue
All, speech requires prior knowledge to be understood. Usually this is largely shared within a culture. So if I say “the cat” I do not usually have to tell you first what a cat is. (Even if in the...
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E100-4: Genesis 8:1-9:17 Sin and grace after the flood
If this was a merely human story you’d expect God’s bold attempt at drastic punishment to have an equally bold result. Either humanity reformed, or the rebellion gets deeper But of course neither is...
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E100-9: Genesis 27-28: Dysfunctional but chosen
poisonous toys with dysfunctional families by azrainman Don’t look for happy families in the tales of the ancestors, matriarchs and patriarchs, of God’s chosen people. Genesis 27-28 carry the story...
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E100-58: Matthew 13:1 – 13:58: More about parables
This chapter is a big sack of parables, and we’ve already seen that a parable is in essence a comparison, where light is thrown on something by talking about something else, better known or more clear...
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Here’s the first of a new series of podcasts on words that pose particular difficulty because English either lacks clearly similar concepts, or the word carries quite different connotations (emotional...
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