by admin | Oct 28, 2024 | Section Seven
I heard a sermon recently that transported me back to the fourth quarter of my seventeenth year. Actually, I heard it twice, but it didn’t click the first time. The sermon was from Genesis 19. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah receded into the fiery...
by admin | Jul 30, 2023 | Christianity, Section Six
There are 10 occurrences of πάντας in Romans [see Table below] the Greek word translated all people in: And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people (πάντας, a form of πᾶς) to myself.1 I’ll consider seven of them in some detail. The first...
by admin | Feb 5, 2022 | My Reasons and My Reason, Section Six, The New Covenant, Who am I?
I shared the first essay of this series with two friends. Both preferred the judgment focus of my Pastor’s sermon, what I called “an invitation to do-it-yourself religion.”[1] To one it was a desirable limit to “grace,” which was seen as a come on to an open-ended...
by admin | Apr 4, 2021 | Psalm 22, Section Five
This is a continuing look into Psalm 22 as the music in Jesus’ heart as He endured the cross. Masoretic Text Septuagint Psalm 22:14c (Tanakh) Table Psalm 22:14c (NET) Psalm 21:15c (NETS) Psalm 21:15c (Elpenor English) my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of...
by admin | Jun 4, 2020 | Psalm 22, Section Five
Rather than add an extremely lengthy addendum to another essay, I chose to begin a series of essays on Psalm 22 in the Septuagint. Here is a Gospel harmony of Jesus’ words. Matthew 27:45, 46 (NET) Mark 15:33, 34 (NET) Luke 23:44, 45a (NET) Now from noon until three,...