Archive for the ‘Ezra’ Category

  • When Bible passages contradict each other

    May 2, 13 • Ezra, Isaiah, Proverbs, ReadingComments Off on When Bible passages contradict each other
    When Bible passages contradict each other

    The flat out contradictions in Scripture make Bible readers jumpy.Conservatives seek to defend the “integrity” of Scripture by denying that there is any (even the slightest) disagreement, those on the other side delight in the “proof” that the Bible is merely a collection of venerable ancient texts of no relevance today. Both responses are dead [&hellip...

  • Ezra and the foreign wives

    Ezra and the foreign wives

    At the end of the book of Ezra there a horrid account of Ezra and the “officials” gang up to force Judeans who have married foreign women to divorce them and send away them and their children. What do we do with passages like this? And as part of our thinking on this, where DO [&hellip...