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Eternal Attributes

The Lord’s acts of mercy indeed do not end, for His compassions do not fail.  They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.  Lamentations 3:22-23  NASB Acts of mercy – This is one of those cases where we must see the Hebrew in order to understand the impact of the verse.  “Acts of mercy” just doesn’t cut it.  We…
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An Act of Creation

and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.  Ephesians 4:24  NASB Put on the new self – Paul is an orthodox Jewish thinker.  Among other things, that means his theology is rooted in the Tanakh, interpreted by the rabbinic traditions.  When he writes, even…
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The Oldest App

Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.  Deuteronomy 4:2  NIV Add/ Subtract – Let’s suppose that you take Moses’ command very seriously.  You decide not to add a single thing to his instructions, and, of course, not to subtract anything from…
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The Law of the Kingdom

They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”  Jeremiah 31:34  NASB They will all know Me – Yeshua…
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The Insanity Defense

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has averted My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy. Therefore say, ‘Behold, I am giving him My covenant of peace;  …
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Halakhic Man

Then God said, “Let Us make mankind 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 livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”  Genesis 1:26  NASB Image/ likeness – We have probably…
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