Solomon, empire, and the number of the beast

I’m reading through 1 kings.  I’d never read it with much of a critical mind set before.  I’d always sort-of accepted the premise that because he was wise, everything he does is good.   Within the last year or so, I’d heard somebody take a rather critical view of many of the things which happened within [...]

I’ll bite the stream

The post here began to spin an interesting tangent by some remarks partially by this guy.  (After posing the question below, he asked if anybody was interested in “biting the stream” which I found to be a pretty cool image and slole for the title listed above.)
To summarize: it might be useful, as we ponder whether [...]