Tag: Book of Ezekiel

  • Dis­gust­ing Lan­guage : The Prob­lem of Ezekiel 23

    Dis­gust­ing Lan­guage : The Prob­lem of Ezekiel 23

    “Does the Bible use lan­guage not fit­ting for God?” This was the ques­tion that a mis­sion­ary rhetor­i­cal­ly posed to his read­ers in an amus­ing but vain attempt to ​“defend” the inap­pro­pri­ate and unnat­ur­al lan­guage of Ezekiel 23. The fun­ny thing that this author has noticed about his whole ​“defence” (and which also prompt­ed this author to write…