The tension: Matthew 7:8 and Proverbs 8:17 both promise that those who seek will find — the seeker-finds-God formula is presented as a universal principle.
The tension: Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and parallel Lukan material tells his followers to take no thought for tomorrow, to give to everyone who asks, to lend without…
The tension: Ephesians 4:26 says "Be ye angry, and sin not" — anger is permitted, even commanded, as long as it doesn't lead to sin and isn't carried into the next day.
The tension: Proverbs 11:31 declares that the righteous are recompensed in the earth — "much more the wicked and the sinner." The traditional Deuteronomic-Wisdom theology u…
The tension: Genesis 9:2, embedded in the post-flood Noachic covenant, has Yahweh place the fear and dread (morakem ve-hittekem) of human beings upon every beast of the ear…
