Not the Destination
The food laws plainly changed — plants in Eden, every creature after the flood, clean and unclean at Sinai. If God never changes, what do we make of that? It turns out none of the stages was the destination.
The food laws plainly changed — plants in Eden, every creature after the flood, clean and unclean at Sinai. If God never changes, what do we make of that? It turns out none of the stages was the destination.
The leper wasn’t the only one. Again and again Jesus crossed the line the law drew around the unclean — the leper, the bleeding woman, the dead — and every time, it was the uncleanness that gave way, not him.
A wedding runs out of wine. Jesus says “not yet” — then does it anyway. Two odd snags in one short story. What if they were put there on purpose?
For three years they had the closest seat in the room — the miracles, the private explanations, every day at his side. And the Gospels are oddly honest that they understood almost none of it. Not before the cross. Not even after the empty tomb. So when did they finally understand — and where does that leave the rest of us?
Every feast God gave sits on a fixed date — except one. The Feast of Weeks you don’t look up; you count to it. And the day you count from refuses to sit still. Why does Pentecost slide?
The common Bible canon has 66 books and 783,137 words in the King James Version. That is a lot of territory. But there is a thread running through all of it, and when you find it, the complexity begins to resolve. That thread is Jesus Christ. The Role of Scripture The writer of Hebrews opens…