by admin | Jul 31, 2017 | Section Four, Sexual Immorality
Though I’m eager to dive into the word study, I’m compelled to spend some time keeping my promise to reveal my own position and velocity. It will make this essay considerably, but necessarily, longer than I like. The Greek words translated sexual immorality in the...
by admin | May 27, 2017 | Paul's Religious Mind, Section Four
In another essay I began “to consider what I called ‘Paul’s religious mind’ through the lens of Jesus’ teaching” in Matthew 18:15-17 as ballast for my own bias toward mercy. Originally, I was concerned about Paul’s judgment from a distance of the man who had...
by admin | May 13, 2017 | Section Three, Sowing to the Flesh
“Satan deceives people with the Progressive Sanctification heresy, which means that sinners gradually become holy after they believe in Jesus… The crux of this theory is gradual sanctification. It sounds great that man can believe in Jesus and gradually become a...
by admin | May 10, 2017 | Section Three, Sowing to the Flesh
We religious folk of a Christian persuasion are fixated on life and death, heaven and hell. Jesus was fixated on fulfilling the Scriptures. How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?[1] (πληρωθῶσιν, a form of πληρόω) He asked...
by admin | May 1, 2017 | Section Three, Sowing to the Flesh
The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials,[1] Peter wrote to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted (λαχοῦσιν, a form of λαγχάνω) a faith just as precious as ours.[2] Another thing the Lord knows,...
by admin | Apr 16, 2017 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
In this essay I’ll consider three occurrences of yârêʼ (תירא), the first two very briefly. They simply mean fear, the fear of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.[1] Numbers 21:33-35 (NET) Deuteronomy 3:1-4 (NET) Then they turned and...