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Mileage Maker

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “through Isaac your descendants shall be named.” Romans 9:6-7 NASB Not all Israel – Daniel Boyarin’s study of the invention of heresy as a way to establish religious…
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Number 8659

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.  John 21:25 NIV Would not have room – This is number 8659.  Eight thousand six hundred fifty-nine posts about biblical words.  That’s…
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Double Double, Toil and Trouble

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; Genesis 2:16  NASB Freely eat – Hebrew has a funny way of expressing emphasis.  If the sentence calls for an exclamation point (which doesn’t exist in Hebrew), the phrase often doubles the important word.  So, in Hebrew it actually reads,…
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Lost in Place

Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, Lord, You know it all.  Psalm 139:4  NASB You know it all – God knows everything, right?  Theologically, the idea is called omniscience.  This verse in Psalms supports the doctrine even if the actual Hebrew is only about words.  It’s clear that the Psalmist means God knows…
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Inventing Difference

“But I confess this to you, that in accordance with the Way, which they call a sect, I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and is written in the Prophets;”  Acts 24:14 NASB Sect – Unless you read the Greek text you’d never know that the word Paul…
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