Someone claims to be a god, or a god’s equal, or others say it of him, and the story turns on whether the claim is believed, tested, punished or rewarded.
Around five hundred years before Christ, a teacher in the small state of Lu gathered students around him and told them something that was not obvious at the time. A good society cannot be built by rearranging people. It has to be built out of good people, one at a time, starting with whoever is…
Genesis 6:4 ends with a phrase that belongs to Homer more than to Moses. The children born to the sons of God by the daughters of men, it says, became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. That is heroic vocabulary. It is the language a poet uses of Achilles or of Gilgamesh,…