Let’s dive a little more into the plan of God, trying to unveil its purpose. As I wrote in my last entry, we cannot derive the purpose of the plan asking “what if”. What if we had never sinned. We have to, and are perfectly able to derive the purpose of the plan from within…

I have been a project manager most of my professional life. I managed software projects with up to 100 people, but usually a group of about 5 programmers, lasting a few man years each. When I planned the project, I tried to foresee all eventualities and manage all risks. Worst case scenarios, critical path, plan…

Remember the garden? Remember paradise? Remember the rabbinical teaching drawn from it? Let’s dive a little deeper. A good friend of mine, Mike Wlodarczyk, taught on the four layers of the word based on Mark 4:3-22. He introduced another acronym which we can use in English to better remember the four layers: LAMB. In one…

Elohim is one of two words in the Hebrew that means God. The other one is El. Elohim is plural and means gods or, as a pluralis majestatis or generic term, God. Its singular is Eloah. El is singular, and elim in the plural. Elohim is used of God, when His characteristics of ruler, judge,…

“Did you see this?” Jesus and Ezekiel swimming in the river in Eze 47:6. Ezekiel is swimming, in the midst of the water, and the Lord asks: “Did you see this?” When God asks a question, it is not because he does not have the answer. “Adam, where are you?” Did God lose the only…

Live started in a garden. We call it paradise, from Persian pardes, garden. The word made its way into Aramaic and Hebrew, written PRDS. Later the rabbis based a teaching about the layers of the Word of God and a way of hermeneutics on this word: P = pschat, the literal sense of the Word…