Emphasis Preaching Journal
Consider the source
Commentary
The Bible is marked by a kind of dualism that is much-maligned in our present culture. We prefer the nuance and sophistication that is a thousand shades of gray. Sometimes, of course, that nuance is just confusion masquerading as insight. In any event, our contemporary culture is generally turned off by the this-or-that, black-and-white paradigm that we find throughout the pages of scripture. Yet that is, indeed, what we find there.
