Odds and Ends, Good and Bad

The Brothers That Wrote a Sixth of the Psalms.

The Rise of Christological Heresy. Good explanations of some well-known historical heretical ideas about Christ.

No True Christian … Part One. Make sure to allow the Scriptures to say what a Christian is.  No True Christian … Part Two. Use proper hermeneutics to determine what Christ taught.

No, Mark didn’t invent the “sea” of Galilee. An excellent study to rebut those claim this.

Shrimp and Homosexuality—is God’s view of both the same?

Silly Putty Bible Study.

Has The Church Always Had An Ordained Priesthood?

More LEFTIST myths about Jesus. Was he tolerant of wrong-doing or evil? Was he a political centrist?

Spiritual abuse and Sovereign Grace Ministries led to a very sad situation for a deceived woman. 

When Christians Tolerate Anything and Everybody, You Cannot Guard the Flock Against the Wolves. 

These priests should be defrocked.

What’s wrong with Jesus Calling?

Cindy Jacobs, Another false prophet exposed.

"Christian Psychics" Shawn Bolz and Chris Reed are heretics deceiving people. This 34-minute demonstrates how these guys and their ilk do their “parlor tricks.”

Max Lucado waters down sin to just a “shortcut.”

Church by the Glades is a church of Satan.

More information about why you shouldn’t waste your time watching the fraudulent show, The Chosen. This 53 minute video is very informative.

Lastly, I also have questions!

A Thought About the Psalms

The English word “psalms” is a transliteration of the Greek title of the book. That is, this is the Greek word simply spelled in English or Roman letters. The Greek word psalmoi was first translated into Latin as Psalmi, and then into English as “Psalms.” The Greek word originally meant a striking or twitching of the fingers on a string. The related verb was used by classical writers for the “pulling of a bowstring.” From that came the idea of “pulling or playing a stringed musical instrument.” When the word took ons the extended meaning of a song, there was always the latent background of the stringed instrumental accompaniment tied to the singing. So the meaning of the Greek title of the book is “sacred songs sung to musical accompaniment. 

Ronald B. Allen, And I Will Praise Him: A Guide to Worship in the Psalms, pg.21

Personal Bible Notes: Psalms

Refer to my 9/25/18 post about the margin notes in my Bible, and why I decided to share them on this blog. 

4:4: Eph. 4:26

9:14 “Daughter Zion”: Jerusalem

17:14 “You fill their bellies”: Who is “their”? NIV and Tanakh say those who God cherishes.

19:1: Cosmological and teleological arguments 

19:3: Not audible but plain nevertheless

29:1 “heavenly beings”: Sons of gods

39:6: Vanity of life

40:1 “waited patiently”: literally, “waiting I waited”

40:1 “my cry”: literal my “scream”

41: 9: See John 13:18

Chapter 51: 2 Samuel 12:13 “fleshed out.”

51:7: IAW Lev. 14

51:16: Lev. 4 (for sins of the “high hand”)

51:17: The only sacrifice for sins of the “high hand” it put self at God’s mercy.

58:7b: May they be as arrows with the heads cut off—blunt and harmless.

60: 5-12: Same as 108: 6-13

77:19: The crossing through the Red Sea.

78:25: Manna is “bread of angels”

104:6-9: Refers to the Flood

105:15: See the context vs WOF claims

107:29-30: Reflects Jesus calming the storm

Chapters 113-116: Passover, sung before the meal.

115:16: No other planet inhabited by humans.

Chapters 117 and 118: Passover, sung after the meal.

118:14 “The Lord is my strength and my song”: Music is power.

139:1-6: God’s omniscience.

139:7-12: God’s omnipresence

139:13-16: God’s omnipotence; it is a child even in the womb.

147:19-20: Only Israel has the Law.