by admin | Feb 13, 2016 | Condemnation or Judgment?, Section Three
I fell for the September 2015 prophecies on YouTube that Jesus would return or the great tribulation would begin. So I interrupted my regular study cycle and focused exclusively on my Romans study for a time. Be that as it may I never thought I would return to...
by admin | May 17, 2013 | Saving Demons, Section Two
If senseless1 Gentiles, chosen for salvation to make Israel jealous, reject the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness – a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness to pursue their own righteousness derived2 from a select...
by admin | Oct 27, 2012 | Section Two
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Jude and the writer of Hebrews managed to expound on the Gospel without recourse to Areté (ἀρέτη),1 Greek virtue. Paul used it once in a way that seems to question its existence or value: Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,...
by admin | Oct 15, 2012 | Chapter 6, Romans, Section Two
What shall we say then? Paul continued. Are we to remain (ἐπιμένωμεν, a form of ἐπιμένω) in sin so that grace (χάρις) may increase (πλεονάσῃ, a form of πλεονάζω)?1 This is a reasonable question considering what Paul wrote earlier: Now the law (νόμος) came in so that...