by admin | Jun 29, 2012 | Paul's OT Quotes, Section Two, Septuagint Quotations
Old Testament quotations in the New Testament frustrated me terribly as I began to study the Bible. When I turned back to the passages listed in the footnotes and read the actual text, it was often significantly different. How could Paul and even Jesus quote the Old...
by admin | Jun 28, 2012 | Saul and Barnabas, Section Two
So Barnabas and Saul,1 sent out by the2 Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia,3 and4 from there they sailed to Cyprus.5 When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.6 They traveled east across the island this way to...
by admin | Jun 27, 2012 | Less Than Sin?, Section Two
To understand the relationship of sin (παράπτωμα) to sin (ἁμαρτία) I’ll spend some time considering Paul’s usage of the words in other writings. Both words were used in Romans 5:12-15 (NET). So then, just as sin (ἁμαρτία) entered the world through one man and death...
by admin | Jun 26, 2012 | Forgiveness, Jedidiah, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
I want to turn my attention to the circumstances when God named Solomon Jedidiah. It all started one spring when King David didn’t go to war with his army. He couldn’t sleep. He got up and walked on the roof of his palace. He saw a woman bathing. Now David wasn’t...
by admin | Jun 25, 2012 | Saul and Barnabas, Section Two
After his encounter with the resurrected (and ascended) Jesus on the road to Damascus, after Ananias healed his blindness, after he was baptized and received the gift of the Holy Spirit, Saul (also known as Paul) stayed with the disciples in Damascus for several days,...