August 18, 2025
A couple of months ago, the pastor on the radio Bible study was lamenting about how well Cosmopolitan magazine did its marketing. But that nugget came at the end of a rant about how it was a terrible magazine that extolled sex, and how it gave tips on whatever it gives tips on… Hard to say if he was going by repute, or if he’d actually read one.
Anyway, he thinks that it is a horrible magazine because it glorifies sex.
I wondered if his wife had ever gotten any tips from it.
April 6, 2025
The pastor on the radio Bible study said that Adam and Noah both sinned because of fruit: Adam, of course, had the apple, and Noah got drunk on wine, product of the grape.
As a lifelong fruit-hater, who eats fruit only because it’s good for her, I decided that this was clearly a sign that I shouldn’t bother myself with it anymore.
April 6, 2025
The radio Bible study dude was talking about Noah this past week. His point was that Noah remained faithful to God, even when people were making fun of him for building the ark, which he (the pastor) says took 100 years; but, as always, he let his imagination run away with him.
He ascribed the fact that Noah got all those animals on board without mayhem to God making them docile; and the need for having food for the animals being obviated by God putting them all in a deep sleep, so that the only food needed was for when they woke up.
My question was, “If God was willing to do all that, why didn’t He just build the ark? Or let Noah work on it for 5 years to prove his faithfulness, then present him with a fait accompli?”
Why do people who insist that others take the Bible literally, as it was written, get to add or subtract things to suit their interpretations?
(That question, of course, is as old as the Bible itself.)
