Here's a link to a short article I originally wrote for Bible Study Magazine on this passage. Its meaning is a common question from Bible readers: "Does God Always Give Second Chances?"
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What is the Bible’s Big Story? Part 6
What is the Bible’s Big Story? Part 6 This is part 6 of Dr. Ronn Johnson’s blog series. Please see my own posted thoughts of a few days ago. It’s good to think about what words we use to describe what the cross (and subsequent resurrection) accomplished. It's not as...
What is the Bible’s Big Story? Part 4
This post is a continuation of Parts 1, 2, and 3 by Dr. Ronn Johnson. Dr. Johnson recommends listening to some of the Leviticus podcasts at one point, and that's good advice (see the episodes on Lev 4 and 5). For those who might remember the series on Leviticus, with...
What is the Bible’s Big Story? Part 3
Part 3 of a series by Dr. Ronn Johnson My thanks to many of you who have emailed me about Parts 1 and 2. Some have expressed concern about going down the road of challenging historic Christianity on this issue of the Big Story of the Bible. I agree that this should...
The Big Story of the Bible: Part 2
This is Part 2 of a guest series by Dr. Ronn Johnson. What is the Bible’s Big Story? Part 2 Dr. Ronn Johnson In my opening post I recommended that locating the Big Story of the Bible can be difficult, and that simply being more fluent in the Bible does not solve the...
What is the Bible’s Big Story? Part 1
A guest post by Dr. Ronn Johnson I recently heard that we see more images or pictures in one day (whether on our phone, on the TV, on a billboard, etc.) than a pre-Renaissance person would have seen over the course of their entire lifetime. Apparently our brains have...
Mike at Grace Church Bellingham: Thinking Like an Israelite: Week 1: Impurity and Sin
In the event that our livestream works for tonight's talk, I thought I'd post my slides as a PDF file for any who want to watch the stream. Even if the stream doesn't work, you still have the slides: Wk1-Impurity and Sin-2 Here is the video for Week 1:
Naked Bible 67: Leviticus 5
Leviticus 5 Leviticus 5 focuses on the so-called “guilt offering” of the OT sacrificial system. As was the case with the “sin offering” of Leviticus 4, the terminology / translation “guilt offering” is misleading, due to how Christians naturally filter OT sacrificial...