by admin | Dec 4, 2016 | Paul's Religious Mind, Section Three
Here are two different descriptions Paul wrote of himself, separated by an affliction. Before the Affliction The Affliction After the Affliction “All things are lawful for me” – but I will not be controlled by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12b (NET) For we do not want you...
by admin | Jan 3, 2014 | Section Three, Torture
And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture (βασανισταῖς, a form of βασανιστής)[1] him until he repaid all he owed. So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive (ἀφῆτε, a form of ἀφίημι)[2] your brother from...
by admin | May 18, 2012 | Section One, Sexual Immorality
Perhaps this is as good a time as any to say that I take it for granted that Jesus spoke Greek, and that those who heard him understood him perfectly well in what was by then, more than three centuries after the conquest of Alexander the Great, their native tongue. ...