by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Section Four
I am more or less willing to be a polytheist. Trinitarianism gives me a headache. I’m not quite sure how anyone deduced monotheism from, HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE HaShem (yehôvâh, יהוה) OUR GOD (ʼĕlôhı̂ym, אלהינו), THE HaShem (yehôvâh, יהוה) IS ONE[1] anyway. The Hebrew...
by admin | Jul 4, 2016 | Condemnation or Judgment?, Section Three
Paul wrote believers in Colossae (Colossians 3:1-6 NET): Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, for you have died and...
by admin | Mar 22, 2016 | Condemnation or Judgment?, Section Three
My bias that—He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked[1]—prophesies Jesus’ return to earth to preach the Gospel effectively (as opposed to executing people for a thousand years) led me to investigate...
by admin | Oct 8, 2012 | Chapter 5, Romans, Section Two
Much more then, Paul continued, because we have now been declared righteous (δικαιωθέντες, a form of δικαιόω) by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath (ὀργῆς, a form of ὀργή).1 I had a tendency to think of this as present or future wrath. That may...
by admin | May 28, 2012 | Section One
I have gone through similar changes in my response to Paul as those I mentioned in response to Jesus. There was a time when I thought Paul had written extraordinary claims, statements so exaggerated that they should never be taken literally or at face value. Not the...