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A Sage King and a Sorrowful Night

The previous series, I was experimenting with different writing styles. So with this new series, I’m going to try something new. I’m going to go through Ecclesiastes, one of my all time favorite books and also add in a fictious narrative from time to time, to help get some of the points across. There are…

A Curious Sequence

I was hanging out at a family get together, and one of the folks was going on about how the world is ending, that 2020’s has seen the worst series of events. They were also under 17 at the time, and new absolutely everything and should of course be consulted to detail the nuances. Needless…

In The Beginning

One area of the Bible that I end up circling back to often is Genesis chapter 1. It’s fascinating. It’s beautifully crafted and well worded. The other writings of its time were brutal and full of horror. The Babylonian account for example talks about the gods killing a female goddess, ripping up her body, and…

Snares and Nets

One theme in Solomon’s life and in the book of Proverbs is sexual immorality. For example, the word prostitute or foreign woman, sometimes translated as “strange woman”, appears more in Proverbs than anywhere else in the Bible. Of all the themes Solomon mentions, sexual immorality more than the others, and in the most severe terms.…