Bible Study – Page 3 – Eric Paździora

Literally Noir

By Eric Pazdziora July 5, 2011 August 4, 2010 5 Comments

The streets of the city are always dark, especially when it’s raining. And they just put a fresh coat of grime down 67th street. It got all over my office window. Not that you can see anything out my office

The Misadventures of Person C, or, Why Couldn’t God Just Forgive Us?

By Eric Pazdziora March 31, 2015 April 5, 2010 14 Comments

There’s a lot on my mind lately, but, though it’s not really a great pressing concern to me, I keep coming back to one particular issue. Perhaps that means it will be illuminating to somebody, so here it is. From

The Best Road, Part 2: More Like Jesus

By Eric Pazdziora March 4, 2011 March 17, 2010 5 Comments

Last time, I answered a question from a reader who wondered why there are so many hardships in the Christian life. I said that, according to what the Bible teaches, everything (good or bad) that God allows into our life

The Best Road

By Eric Pazdziora March 10, 2010 March 10, 2010 16 Comments

or, If God Has a Wonderful Plan for My Life, Why Am I Suffering? From my files: September 2008. My long-time readers know that the best way to get a post out of me is for somebody to ask me

Hypocriticism II: Blessed are the Disillusioned

By Eric Pazdziora August 9, 2015 November 16, 2009 3 Comments

This is a follow-up to my post “Hypocriticism”. Only, it was pretty old, and when I went back and re-read it just now, having done a lot more study about Spiritual Abuse over the past several years, I realized that it

Hypocriticism

By Eric Pazdziora January 2, 2013 November 10, 2009 8 Comments

When I was in high school, I worked under a man who for some reason didn’t like me. So he decided to sabotage my career. He spread false stories about me behind my back, saying that I wasn’t a good

Spiritual Abuse Files: The untold story of Grace On a Snake!

By Eric Pazdziora September 29, 2011 November 3, 2009 7 Comments

(Starring Samuel L. Jackson as the aptly named Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film) In the Roman world of Jesus’ time, there were many moral problems. There were famines, wars, diseases. There was harsh poverty and decadent luxury. There was political corruption, intrigue, abuse

Jesus and the Parable of the Man who Needed Health Care

By Eric Pazdziora October 3, 2013 August 29, 2009 3 Comments

Yes, there is such a parable in the original. The first several times I didn’t realize what it was about; Jesus insists on framing the question in a way that invalidates most of our categories of discussing the issue. I’ve