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I walked into my college Old Testament Survey class in 1974. I was majoring in physics, but I needed some humanities courses. The professor greeted us, and launched into the course. He was a nice enough guy, and seemed pretty knowledgeable. But I didn’t hear what I was expecting to hear. He said that the first five books of the Bible were written by several different people whose writings were then merged together. He said that the first part of…..
I have gotten many favorable responses to my book, and I am grateful for these responses. I have also encountered some detractors. The detractors tend to fit into two camps: 1. Atheists, who think the Bible is bunk, but who are clearly rattled by this new (to them) way of making sense of it; and 2. Christians who either misunderstand what I mean by “decoding,” or who simply reject the notion that the Old Testament contains hidden pictures of Christ……
When I was in college studying physics, quantum mechanics was by far the strangest subject I encountered, but like many things in this world that are seen, it often seems like a copy and metaphor of Biblical truth. One interesting aspect of quantum theory is something called “nonlocality,” a phenomenom in which remotely located particles are linked to each other in some special way. I have noticed that some distantly separated passages of the Bible also appear to be linked…..
A long time ago in the land of Israel, an innocent man in the prime of life was led up the side of a hill to die a sacrificial death. He had led an interesting life. The circumstances surrounding his birth were especially unusual. He was miraculously conceived, and his parents had been visited by an angel who foretold the event. The Lord even provided the surprised parents-to-be with a name for the child. Now, as he strained under his…..