by admin | May 12, 2019 | Section Five, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
“One more thing you should know about me,” I wrote in another essay: “I usually appreciate God’s deceptiveness (the NIV translates it shrewdness, if you prefer) first, before I recognize his reliability, trustworthiness and loyalty. So I assume that I am far more...
by admin | Jan 12, 2014 | Condemnation or Judgment?, Section Three
Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in...
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...