by admin | Jul 4, 2012 | Saul and Barnabas, Section Two
After Paul finished speaking people asked him to speak again the next Sabbath day, and many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas1 and spoke with them more that same day. On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear...
by admin | Jul 3, 2012 | Less Than Sin?, Section Two
To approach the issue of whether such πορνεία as is not so much as named among the Gentiles1 is of greater consequence than the παραπτώματι (a form of παράπτωμα) addressed in Galatians 6:1 I want to consider Romans 7. But first I want to remind myself of that most...
by admin | Jul 2, 2012 | Forgiveness, Jedidiah, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Imagine if Bill Clinton or George W. Bush did what David did and got off like that. But I’m more interested in knowing the only true God, and Jesus Christ,1 and trying to understand Him these days, than fretting over ancient history. Besides, I’m nobody, and though...
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,...
by admin | Jun 24, 2012 | Less Than Sin?, Section Two
I’ll continue the survey of Galatians to understand the relationship of sin (παράπτωμα) to sin (ἁμαρτία). Paul hinted at the attitude, activity and the content of the faith of those who were so quickly deserting (μετατίθεσθε, a form of μετατίθημι) the one who called...
by admin | Jun 23, 2012 | What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
Though I knew nothing of Freud and his theories about sex and aggression at the time, I had immediately equated sex and violence. I grew up in a fairly tough blue collar neighborhood. We boys fought all the time, mostly wrestling matches with an occasional blow with...