Dramatic Irony in Job

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Have you ever seen a performance of Romeo and Juliet? Near the end of the play, Juliet takes a drug that induces a temporary, but deathlike, sleep, to avoid marrying a man she does not love. To add to the drama, her body is placed in a tomb. To all appearance she seems dead. But the audience knows better. 
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The Apostle Paul Versus Enlightened Political Correctness

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I enjoy reading Imprimis, a monthly newsletter of Hillsdale College. I just read the February 2019 issue, entitled, “Shall We Defend Our Common History?” by Roger Kimball.   I found parallels between modern political correctness and the way in which many seminaries discuss the writings of the authors of the New Testament.   Kimball gives example after example of
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Just Let Him Go: Luther on How to Respond to Atheists

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I love apologetics. I started witnessing a couple of months after I became a Christian at the age of seventeen. The first group I went to was the local Muslim student association. I remember they gave me a tract alleging that Christians believe in three gods. “We do?” I said. From that moment on, I became invested in apologetics (or what used to be called “Christian Evidences”). The more
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Don’t Listen to Your Prophets (Jeremiah 23:16; 27:9, 14, 16, 17)

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“Therefore do not listen to your prophets…” (Jer 27:9).  “Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets…” (Jer 23:16; 27:14, 16).  “Do not listen to them” (Jer 27:17).   Did you know that God sometimes told Israel not to listen to her prophets? During the last days of Israel in the land before seventy years in exile in Babylon, nearly all the prophets of Israel
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