by admin | May 18, 2012 | Section One, Sexual Immorality
Perhaps this is as good a time as any to say that I take it for granted that Jesus spoke Greek, and that those who heard him understood him perfectly well in what was by then, more than three centuries after the conquest of Alexander the Great, their native tongue. ...
by admin | Apr 22, 2012 | Forgiveness, Section One
Jesus contrasted religious and righteous prayer in a parable in Luke 18:9-14. When his disciples were curious why He spoke to people in parables (Matthew 13:10), Jesus answered in two different ways, first (Matthew 13:11, 12 NET): You have been given the opportunity...
by admin | Apr 15, 2012 | Forgiveness, Holy Spirit, Introduction, Section One, Section Two
This is my attempt to use the sharpness and precision of Scripture to distinguish the Gospel from what I call the religious mind. Admittedly, the religious mind may be nothing more than a subspecies of the carnal mind (KJV) or the outlook of the flesh (NET),1 but it...