Misconceptions About Jesus
Jesus was not … Long-haired. Jesus would have had short hair, a beard, and possibly long sidelocks. The confusion comes, I think, from a confusion of Nazarene (which Jesus was) and Nazirite (which He wasn’t). A Nazarene is a person who comes from Nazareth, a city in Israel. A Nazirite is a person who has […]
The Blasted Fig Tree
There’s a lot of debate about this story in Jesus’s life. Some say it shows Jesus getting seriously irked by an inanimate object that had no reason to have figs on it, since it wasn’t fig season; therefore, Jesus was just a man who got mad for no good reason—clearly refuting any claims of divinity. […]
WWJD, Anyway? Turn the Other Cheek, or Turn the Tables?
There is a debate going on right now in various blogs on the Blogging Network about whether it is right or wrong for a Blogger A to censure (not censor) Blogger B for what A views as offensive, blasphemous, or inappropriate material. In one series of comments, it was suggested that the offended person should turn […]