Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 Man and Beast Both Die in the End

Ecclesiastes 3:16-22, Man and Beast Both Die in the End, Under the Sun, Justice, Wickedness, Righteousness, God, Purposes, Evil, Theodicy, Ecclesiastes, Beasts, Judges, Vanity, Death, Breath, NASB, Lockman Foundation,Thoughts of God, thoughtsofGod.com, David Reese

16 Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. In the last section, we were told that God does what He desires, nothing interferes with God’s purposes. This construct brings up an ancient question, why does God allow wickedness? Why […]

Reflections on Jonah: God’s Mercy

Jonah Under the Vine, Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd .... should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand 280-290 CE, marble, late Roman, Asia Minor, Cleveland Museum of Art, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, mythoughts, David Reese

I recently went though the book of Jonah to see what God might have to say. I have started by simply drawing the story down to an outline of text. God, יְהוָ֔ה – Yhvh, begins the story by speaking to His servant, Jonah, telling him to goto Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. Jonah flees in […]

Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love

it is the Christian conception of fellowship with God that gives the idea of Agape its meaning, mythoughts, thoughts of God, thoughtsofgod, David Reese, Anders Nygren, Nygren, Agape and Eros, Agape, Eros

In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man.  In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature.  In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif.  Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.