Gods Own Words

Many Faces of Isaac‍

Jacob Chanikuzhy “The Night in Question” is the story of Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff, famous American short story writer. In this story, Frank retells to his sister Frances the story he heard in a sermon. The story was of a parent who had to make a terrible choice. Benny was the nine year old b

Expulsion of Ishmael

Jacob Chanikuzhy We don’t celebrate weaning. But Abraham did throw a party when his son Isaac was weaned (Gen 21:8). In accordance with the Eastern standards Isaac must have been two or three years old when he stopped feeding on his mother’s milk. In the ancient times, when infant mortality was very high, an infant’s […]

Lot, a Victim or Villain?

Jacob Chanikuzhy We have a very notorious story of incest (sexual relation between close relatives) in the story of Lot and his two daughters. Though all instances of incest can be painful it is all the more traumatic when a girl is abused by her own father. However, in the biblical story narrated in Genesis […]

Lingering around Death

Jacob Chanikuzhy The ultimate destruction of a perverted culture – this is what most Christians think when they read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:1-29). However, some scholars indicate another way to approach this story. As the bible itself attests, Sodom was a fertile land and was like the garden of Eden. This […]

An Old Man and His Guests…

Jacob Chanikuzhy Probably Abraham was recovering from that minor surgery – circumcision. It was a hot day and he was sitting in the front porch of his tent, perhaps thinking of the strange promise God repeatedly made and never kept, viz., that Abram will have a son through his wife Sarah. Now Abraham is already […]

ANGEL’S COUNSELLING FOR A DOMESTIC PROBLEM

Jacob Chanikuzhy According to Sophocles, “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” It cannot be different for a father too. One of the most frustrated statements of the patriarch Abraham is in connection with his childlessness. When God promised Abram “great rewards” Abram’s immediate response was that he has no use of […]

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