Here are some posts that explain some of the more difficult passages of the Bible.
- On Ezekiel’s “Laws that were not good” -
Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live. And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezekiel 20:25-26
How could, or in what manner, did God give Israel such laws? Are not all of His laws good?
- The Johannine Comma -
Why have modern translations of the Bible removed a verse traditionally held to be part of the inspired Sacred Scriptures?
- Achan’s Plunder – and Blunder -
Here's a disturbing story from the Book of Joshua story of a Israelite soldier named Achan who made a terrible mistake. What I say may not make the story any less disturbing, but we will hear a great spiritual lesson related to it from St. John of the Cross.
- On Jephthah’s Rash Oath -
On Jephthah, a tragic hero of the Book of Judges.
- On Death in the Psalms -
It cannot be said that a belief in an afterlife and immortality of the soul are expressed in the Book of Psalms. What are we to make of this?
- On the Curses of the Psalms -
We may be horrified when we first read the curses in the Book of Psalms. But do they have a spiritual sense that could help us?
- On the Death of King David’s Baby -
Why did God strike down the baby of King David and Bathsheba?
- Unto the Third and the Fourth Generation -
At least four passages of the Old Testament talk about God punishing the descendants of evil men down to the third and fourth generations. How could a loving God do this?
- “If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother…” -
Does Jesus require us to hate our own families? How could this be?
- On Violence in the Old Testament -
The violence of the Old Testament is often cited in attacks on the Bible and the Faith. Here are four helpful perspectives on the violence […]
