A blog by Tom Sheepandgoats (aka Tom Harley)
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The Anger that Does Not Turn Back
Four times the phrase is repeated, each time after a surface or insufficient fix—or maybe it just presents as an important reminder: “In view of all this, his anger has not turned back, But his hand is still stretched out to strike.” There it is four times in close succession: Isaiah 9:12— After attacks by Assyrians. Isaiah 9:17 — After widespread godlessness under rebellious leadership.…
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Another Ax Exalting Itself over the Chopper
When you find an ax exalting itself over the chopper, as at Isaiah 10:5, you look for others. I mean, that’s worrisome behavior for an ax. Best to nip it in the bud. Alas—you find that you are too late. Axes are doing it everywhere. Newfangled AI offers insight as to another path the ax is doing this. However ubiquitous AI is at this time…
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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 to was his entire past homosexual life. No way did…
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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 it is. This is not because modern translators are smarter.…
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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 guys you mess with. “My anger is still and does…
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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 seem to mind, not at all like the Hercule Poirot…
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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, adding that he had wished people were more careful. Though…
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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 to that general area, and married the Witness woman who…