Realm of the Dead
Discerning the Dead, Part 3
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008We’re at the point now in our intermittent forays into the biblical realm of the dead to flesh out (again, pardon the pun) who’s who in the Underworld. I noted at the start that I wanted to start with the term metim to see if that term spoke of the human dead, as opposed to […]
Discerning the Dead, Part 2
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Here is the short list of passages (from the last post) we need to consider:
Deut 18:11; Deut. 26:14; Deut 28:62; Psa 88:5; Psa 88:10; Psa 106:28; Psa 115:17; Eccl 9:3; Eccl 9:5; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 26:19
Continuing on in our efforts to parse the dead (metim) … I […]
Discerning the Dead, Part 1
Sunday, May 11th, 2008I’m going to start going through the passages from the last post that I pulled out for examination from the list of occurrences in the OT for “the dead” (metim). Recall my working hypothesis:
The term “the dead” refers to those things that can and do die (they are inherently mortal, having determinate lifespans, and must […]
Whittling Away at the Dead
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008As some of you, no doubt, I’ve had time to go through the PDF file of the occurrences of (Hebrew) met and metim (”the dead”). You no doubt noticed that the overwhelming majority of these instances are pretty straightforward and refer to dead human beings–victims of war, old age, disease, etc. But I […]
A Biblical View of Ghosts, Part 1
Thursday, May 1st, 2008This might seem like a weird way to kick off the Naked Bible blog, but it’s actually a good subject for illustrating what will make this blog different than any other Bible study blog on the web. How? Just stay with me through the series.
Christians typically assume (and I hope you’ve heard the old […]
