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What the Image of God Actually Is — And What It Means to Be an Imager
Ask most people what the image of God is and you’ll hear the same answer: our reason, our conscience, the divine spark inside us. It sounds right — and it doesn’t survive contact with the text. What replaces it is bigger, stranger, and far more useful.
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How I Study the Bible
I am not a seminary graduate. What I have is a large library, years of reading, and forty years of wrestling with a God I could not fully explain. Here is how the work actually gets done.
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Jephthah’s Study of Judges 11
Did Jephthah sacrifice his daughter or dedicate her to lifelong service? A full read of Judges 11 — the outcast warrior, the rash vow, the silence of God — working through Wilcock and Block on what the text actually says.
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Lesser Gods of the Old Testament Pagan Deities
The Old Testament names dozens of rival gods — Baal, Asherah, Molech, Dagon, the Queen of Heaven, the host of heaven. A tiered reference to who they were and what each claimed authority over, read through the Divine Council framework.
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Moses at the Threshold: The Circumcision Crisis
Exodus 4:24-26 is one of the most startling and contested passages in the Torah — Yahweh attacks Moses on the road, and Zipporah saves him with a flint knife and a covenant act. A divine-council reading of why the household had to come first.
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The Ten Plagues of Egypt
The plagues weren’t weather events or just political pressure. Heiser reads Exodus 7-12 as a divine-council confrontation — Yahweh dismantling the religious order of Egypt and exposing its gods as powerless, judgment building toward the final Passover night.
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Divine Council Inventory: Heavenly Beings and Fallen Entities
The Old Testament presents a populated heavenly realm — beings of various ranks, roles, and alignments operating within Yahweh’s cosmic order. In Heiser’s divine council framework, these aren’t poetic metaphors. They’re real entities with real functions, some faithful, some in rebellion.
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Judges 17–18: Micah, Dan, and the Idol
Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges 17–18 traces idolatry spreading through three levels — household, priesthood, tribe — until the grandson of Moses is founding priest at Dan’s idol shrine.
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ABBA — Father
You have probably heard a sermon claim that Abba means “Daddy.” That idea traces back largely to Joachim Jeremias in the mid-twentieth century, and it has stuck in popular preaching ever since. But the case does not hold up — and what the word actually means is something heavier.