A blog by Tom Sheepandgoats (aka Tom Harley)
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“Though Your Sins are Like Scarlet:” (Isaiah 1:18) Milo Highlights a Specific Sin
You could have knocked me over with a feather when Milo Yiannopoulos cited Isaiah 1:18 “Though your sins are like scarlet, They will be made as white as snow.” The reason you could have knocked me over with a feather is that he applied it to himself. Not only that, the “sins” he was referring
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Principles of Bible Translation: Matthew 5:3
Most translations of the Bible are pretty accurate. Or, perhaps a better way to put it is that the differences between them are so minuscule to the overall picture that you can be reliably guided in your relationship with God by any one of them. In general, the more modern the translation, the more accurate
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The Ax Identified: Isaiah 10
Finally! All this time Isaiah has been saying there’s trouble brewing for blowing off God’s warnings as though a parking ticket. Now he says where that trouble will be coming from: “Aha! the Assyrian, The rod to express my anger And the staff in their hand for my denunciation!” (10:5) Aha, indeed. These are not
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Elon Musk Memes Revealed, with Assistance from Glass Onion and Grok
I saw Glass Onion last night, the second in the delightful Knives Out series featuring supersleuth Beniot Blanc. “Yeah, I see what you’re saying, Benny, but.. .” was the first of many lines to grab me in the original Knives Out. One can imagine the impeccably-dressed detective correcting him: “It’s Beniot, not ‘Benny!’” But he doesn’t
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AI Explained
The guy that runs Nvidia was once a janitor. From a disadvantaged family, Jensen Huang attended private grade school in Kentucky from age 9 in the poorest county (then and now) in the country. All students had a work assignment. His was housekeeping. He told Joe Rogan he must have cleaned toilet thousands of times,
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Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It: Isaiah 6
From the university, Evan responded to one of those Bible study offers, attended meetings almost immediately and commented at his first meeting. With two or three months, he was in the house-to-house ministry. “Why did no one tell me about this before?” he exclaimed. He made permanent the intern job offered through the college, moved
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Filling the Tables with Vomit: Part 2
While they were puking their guts out, there were a lot of underpinnings they were turning a blind eye to—this part was in the oral Bible reading: “Woe to those who join one house to another house and who annex one field to another field until there is no more room and you live by
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Filling the Tables with Vomit
The old fellow who became a Witness in his mid-seventies showed me photos he had taken on his phone. They were sunrises and sunsets. One was just a snapshot of the starry heavens. “See the beautiful things that Jehovah makes,” he said. He regrets that he didn’t begin studying the Bible with Witnesses long ago.
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Crooning Love Songs in the Vineyard
Even though it’s the same story, the narrator changes during the first seven verses of Isaiah chapter 5. The first two verses is the start a love song! Is Isaiah the one to sing it? “Let me sing, please, to my beloved, A song about my loved one and his vineyard, My beloved had a