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Regarding the Bible (2)

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;  2 Timothy 3:16  NASB Scripture– Let’s follow up on yesterday’s lengthy (I apologize) description of the Bible as a book about human encounters with God. Peter Enns adds some important insight: Seeing God as a character in the story…
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Regarding the Bible (1)

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;  2 Timothy 3:16  NASB Scripture– “I wrote that when I was stupid.”  So said David Flusser when questioned by one of his students about an article he published years before.  That’s how I feel today.   If you ask…
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Part of the Picture

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-27 NASB Rule– There are two important verbs that are…
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Playing with the Text

O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.Psalm 95:1  NASB Shout joyfully– Put on a happy face.  That seems to be the intention here, so the translators offer a positive rendering of the verb by adding “joyfully.” The actual Hebrew is simply the verb rūaʿ, which can mean…
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Keeping It in the Family

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  Romans 3:23 NASB Have sinned– Let’s reconsider Paul’s declaration.  If sin is basically disconnection (i.e., disconnection from the source of life—God—and consequently from His creation including other people), then Paul is declaring that each and every one of us experiences, at some level, a sense…
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Entitlement Theology

For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, Romans 8:3 NASB Weak as it was– God saved you, right?  I mean, you couldn’t save yourself, could you?  You sinned.  Repentance and restitution don’t…
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