TJ

Every ancient culture had its gods, and every god had a job. The god of the sunrises and sets. The god of the river floods and recedes. The god of war fights and rests. They were defined by their function, and their function had boundaries. And then a voice speaks from a burning bush on the back side of a desert, and Moses makes the mistake of asking it for a name. The answer he gets back is Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh. I AM THAT I AM. This God, unlike the gods of the past, is the ground of all existence itself. Everything that is, is because He is. You cannot name Him because naming Him would require a word bigger than any we have. And then Jesus of Nazareth walks into the Gospel of John and picks that statement up and puts it in His own mouth. He does it not once but seven times, and each time He is making a claim so enormous that His first-century Jewish audience understood it immediately, even if modern readers who have been stripped of that context often miss it entirely. “I am the bread of life.” “I am the light of the world.” “I am the door.” “I am the good shepherd.” “I am the resurrection and the life.” “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” “I am the true vine.” Every single one of those statements begins with ego eimi, which means I AM. Those are the same words the Greek Septuagint used to translate the unpronounceable name God gave Moses at the bush. Jesus is not using a figure of speech. He is not reaching for a metaphor. He is invoking Exodus 3. He is saying that the uncategorizable, uncontainable, unnameable God that Moses met on the mountain is standing in front of you right now in human skin. And in case there was any ambiguity left in the room, He removes it completely in John 8:58. The Pharisees are arguing with Him about Abraham, and Jesus says, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” He does not say I was. He says I AM. He uses the present tense. And the Pharisees picked up stones to kill Him, not because they were confused but because they understood exactly what He was claiming. He was not claiming to be old. He was not claiming to be a prophet. He was claiming to be the voice from the bush. The I AM statements only work if you understand Exodus. They only carry their world-breaking weight if you know the covenant history, the burning bush, and the divine name that was so holy it could not be spoken aloud. Jesus did not appear out of nowhere with a startup religion and a set of inspirational quotes. He walked into a story that had been unfolding for two thousand years and said He was the one the story had been about the entire time. When you cut the Jewish root, when you treat His heritage as incidental, you sever the I AM statements from their foundation. Those statements are God fulfilling the promise He made at the bush by showing up in person to do what He said He would do. “I will be what I will be.” And what He chose to be was one of us, a Jewish man from Nazareth who carried the unspeakable name in a body that could bleed. That is the character of God, and it is the thing that makes the biblical narrative unlike any other religious text on earth. He is not a God who stays abstract and unapproachable, hidden safely. He is a God who came down. He is a God who showed up. He is a God who says I AM and then proves it by becoming someone you can touch. And He is a God that died for all of our sins so that we may be saved.

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The euphemisms exist for one reason — to obfuscate the truth.

Which abortion is your favorite? The one where the unborn baby's body is crush and sucked out with a hose or the one where the baby is cut apart with a knife? Please enlighten us.

My favorite kind of abortion is the kind that's safe, legal, accessible, and none of your damn business to regulate. And no amount of fearmongering by describing what goes on to a half-ounce fetus with no consciousness, self-awareness, or feeling of pain is going to change that.

Today I asked an abortion advocate what her favorite method of abortion is.