I’ve just spotted this… I’ve had a hunch for a while that I would spot more in Genesis 1:1 than I’ve already written up (see “Jesus in the Beginning”) and I just saw a description of the pictographic roots of the words “Father” and “Son” in Hebrew, (which will need a future post too) and Read More …
Test your knowledge of how Jesus appears in the first book of the Bible. This is a short quiz, just 11 questions, it doesn’t by any stretch cover all that could be said about Jesus in Genesis… but it is fun and if you get the question correct there is often a extra bit of Read More …
The Sci-fi writer and gnostic theologiser Philip K Dick once helped an African man in a petrol station, I dont know the details of the encounter, but there was something about it that led Philip K Dick to believe it was a re-interpretation of the story of Philip meeting the Ethopian on the road to Read More …
In chapter three of Genesis, God makes a statement heard both by humanity and the demonic powers: ” I will put enmity between you (the devil) and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring, he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel. ” – Genesis 3:15 This is the first Read More …
In Revelation, Jesus appears to John calling himself “the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last”, Rev 22:13 (see also 1:8, 2:8b and 21:6). John is reporting in Greek to Greek churches, but Jesus was John’s cousin, his mother Salome was Mary’s sister, he grew up with Jesus speaking Aramaic, so as with Read More …
I was teaching the introduction to Jesus in the Old Testament last night and afterwards someone started to quiz me on why the number seven was important and how it related to Jesus. Which was fascinating because I’ve just written this up for “Jesus in the Beginning”.. after all the significance of seven makes itself Read More …
The New Testament starts with the words: “The book of generations….” Matthew 1:1, which in Greek reads “The book of Genesis…” The Greek title of the first book of the whole Bible. All four of the Gospels draw on the Creation account and structure in their opening verses John even starts with exactly the same Read More …
