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Philip Harvey commented on the blog post Genocide in the OT 3 years, 2 months ago · View
Yeah, I think that’s cool John, we are world’s apart. I guess one aspect of that is morality. I recently learnt in a lecture three ways of understanding morality (in which I guess Genocide is a moral issue). I can’t remember the guy’s name who came up with these categories but they are; autonomy, community [...]
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Philip Harvey commented on the blog post Action 3 years, 2 months ago · View
Hey Alan What do you mean by ‘tablet form at Mt Sinai’? In Exodus it reckons that the tablets had the covenant law on them, which would suggest that the narratives in Numbers and Deuteronomy (and other areas like the beginning of Exodus) would be left out. I’m not sure how all the Torah would [...]
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Philip Harvey commented on the blog post Action 3 years, 2 months ago · View
I was under the impression – from an article I read – that Exodus was the first book within the Hebrew Scriptures (being different to what we have today). I just had a look round to see if any where else said the same thing and found nothing. So perhaps I was wrong to assume [...]
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Philip Harvey wrote a new blog post: Action 3 years, 2 months ago · View
Just a couple of things I was thinking about as I read it. 1) As Exodus was the first book of the Hebrew scripture it is interesting to think that this is perhaps the first event that involved God and all of Israel in action with each other. Passover (and the following consecration of the [...]
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Philip Harvey commented on the blog post Yahweh was with him 3 years, 3 months ago · View
That’s cool Richard! Am I able to suggest here that perhaps it was by a combination of God and Joseph’s strength that the divine plan was carried out. There seems to be a dialogue between human agency and God’s agency in the world and throughout scripture that make me hesitant towards suggesting it was all God. [...]
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Philip Harvey wrote a new blog post: Sucked to be the baker… 3 years, 3 months ago · View
I thought the reflection was cool. Reading about how centred Joseph’s life was on God reminds me of a conversation a mate and I had about Peter walking on the water. That he wasn’t walking on the water necessarily because of his faith, but because he was in full relationship with God. He started sinking [...]