... -four thousand, this plague kills the last of the older generation (Num. 26:64–65). Paul, in alluding to Numbers 25, says “in one day twenty-three thousand of them died” (1 Cor. 10:8). Paul perhaps does not count those hanged by the judges, or he may reflect a tradition ... resulted in the women getting pregnant, and the resulting babies were called “Jesus babies.” This practice continued until Berg ended it in 1987, after the onset of the AIDS epidemic made the practice seem too dangerous. This was ...
... a college graduate.” We so want to believe that we have made progress. So now a professor at Harvard, Lawrence Kohl berg has a theory of “moral development.” Upward and onward, getting better and better each day in every way. We brought ... done so much with her life. It could have been easier for her. Damn, what a waste.” Are sheep worth so great a price? Somewhere Paul says, “It is not as angels that He has loved us.” Today's text says, nor is it as intelligent, rational, sensible folk who are ...
