The tension: The Priestly and Deuteronomic Torah absolutely forbids eating blood as a perpetual statute (Gen 9:4; Lev 3:17; 7:26-27; 17:10-14; 19:26; Deut 12:16, 23), and t…
The tension: The Hebrew Bible repeatedly narrates theophanies in which God is seen face-to-face — by Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, seventy elders, Manoah, Micaiah, Job, Isa…
The tension: The Bible gives three different answers to how long Israel was in Egypt: 400 years in Genesis 15:13 and Acts 7:6, four generations in Genesis 15:16, and 430 ye…
The tension: Genesis 50:13 has Jacob's sons carrying him into Canaan and burying him in the cave of Machpelah near Hebron, the family tomb purchased by Abraham.
The tension: Exodus 4:10 has Moses himself telling YHWH he is not eloquent and is "slow of speech, and of a slow tongue" — the whole reason Aaron gets attached to the missi…
The tension: The Torah (Exod 20:14, Deut 5:18) and the New Testament (Acts 15:20, 1 Cor 5:1, 6:13, 6:18, 10:8, 2 Cor 12:21, Gal 5:19-21, Eph 5:3, Col 3:5-6, 1 Thess 4:3, He…
The tension: Acts 1:24, Psalm 44:21, and Psalm 139:2-3 affirm that God knows the secrets of the heart, that He understands thoughts from afar, that nothing in human conscio…
The tension: Deuteronomy 14:1 calls all Israel 'the children of the LORD your God.' Psalm 82:6 declares 'all of you are children of the most High.' Hosea 1:10, Acts 17:29,…
The tension: The Bible holds together two streams: Deuteronomy 30:19 and Joshua 24:15 frame human destiny as a real moral choice ("choose life," "choose you this day"), whi…
The tension: The Hebrew Bible repeatedly affirms YHWH as sovereign over all the kingdoms and the whole earth, but several New Testament passages — most notably the Temptati…
The tension: The Hebrew Bible's wisdom literature and older narrative strata treat death as terminal — the dead go to Sheol, lose consciousness, and do not return.
