by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | Section Three, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
During my Christmas holiday Grandmother described her simple faith to me: Jesus died to save us from the god of the Old Testament. She didn’t want me or any preacher or any church or the Bible to confuse her simple faith in her simple gospel. It was an eerie...
by admin | Oct 17, 2012 | Chapter 7, Romans, Section Two
Or do you not know, brothers and sisters, Paul continued, (for I am speaking to those who know the law [νόμον, a form of νόμος]), that the law (νόμος) is lord over a person as long as he lives?1 Thus Paul introduced another value of the death of those who were...
by admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Saul and Barnabas, Section Two
The end of their first mission in Pisidian Antioch became a pattern of sorts for Paul and Barnabas (Acts 13:49, 50; 14:1, 2 NET): So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region. But the Jews incited the God-fearing women1 of high social standing and...
by admin | Jul 3, 2012 | Less Than Sin?, Section Two
To approach the issue of whether such πορνεία as is not so much as named among the Gentiles1 is of greater consequence than the παραπτώματι (a form of παράπτωμα) addressed in Galatians 6:1 I want to consider Romans 7. But first I want to remind myself of that most...