February 3, 2020
The reason why God granted Jesus unprecedented authority was not just that he was the promised Jewish Messiah, uniquely authorized agent of God; but more precisely […]
February 3, 2020
1st-century Judaism knew a good deal of speculation about hero figures who had been exalted to heaven and given some participation in God‘s judgment, e.g., Enoch, […]
February 3, 2020
The idea of God as a little baby is one of the most disruptive theological suggestions ever made by Giles Fraser Christmas can be a bad […]
January 3, 2020
The Father is called “the one God” or “the only God” at least 30 times by John in his Gospel! For example, in the classic, clear […]
January 3, 2020
The Hebrews and Greeks did indeed have a word for a person. It is the word we most often see translated as “soul.” When the Bible […]
January 3, 2020
The 6,828 occurrences of YHVH never appear as kurios mou (my lord) in the LXX, the Greek version of the NT which is very frequently cited […]
December 13, 2019
by J. R. Griffiths, Mus. BAC. It is now generally admitted that our manner of spending Christmas is very largely a perpetuation of customs prevailing not […]
December 13, 2019
by Anthony Buzzard From the early second century, or even earlier in the days of John, and calling forth John’s impassioned plea to stay with Jesus […]
December 13, 2019
Many of the early and late so-called Church Fathers applied John 1:13 to the virgin birth of Jesus and not the spiritual rebirth of the Christian. […]
October 30, 2019
The following translation/paraphrase of Galatians 3:20 from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition, is quite amazing: “There can be no mediator with just one Person. Yet God […]
October 30, 2019
Moses said honor your parents (Mar 7.10) but God said it (Mat 15.4); Moses says (Mar 12:26) but God said it (Mat 22:31); Moses gave the […]
October 30, 2019
From The Cambridge History of the Bible vol. 1. THE VALUE OF VERSIONAL ATTESTATION It is basic to the hypothesis of change in this period and […]
