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My task is the proclamation of the Gospel as found in the sermon in Acts 13. I'd have to hear what you think of that first. It covers ancient to Christian history, this world and the next. It provides organization to the whole Biblical history.

That doesn't really define anything. So if we find some Marxists Jews today saying the Gospel is for the top 10% of equitied people must give all they have to the bottom 10%, then that's the Gospel? Marx was Jewish.

Caino, You don't know you're way around. That expression is a line from Jesus especially in reference to the ordeal of events he was going to have to go through in the Gospel. Meanwhile, with no intrepidation about the Gospel events in mind, in Mt 12, he explains that Satan is bound, which...

The only problem with this quote is the person is not familiar with Col 1. All the fullness of the deity was in bodily form in Christ.

#9 (see the thread 'basic theses of NT eschatology' for the whole list) The apostles spent most of their time expounding Ps 2, 16, 110. There is no commentary on Ezek 38, 39 and Ps 83 even though most of today's prophecy experts spend their time on those. In light of the victory over death...

If 'formless and void' has as much to do with a huge sinister creature as it does in other ancient near east cosmology, then there maybe a metaphor. Rather than find a figure of speech in Genesis 1, I go with actual description for now because of Peter in 2 Peter 3's "through water and with...

Back to salvation, I think I have something that is a good illustration of a typical modern problem, and hope to get this illustration to JerryS, too. I'm at a regional state fair and a Faith Baptist church has a booth near my building co booth. Their attention-getter is a display panel with...

There are a few things about the original text of Genesis that may help us see a more rational statement there than many have thought. 1:1 is a title like 2:4, 5:1 and many other places in Genesis. It is not action in the story yet. The grammar of v2 actually goes: when God was creating the...

A news item yesterday says Kerry called the Chattanooga shooter a perverted jihadist. Why use two words when you could use one? But more important, was he just trying to retrieve votes lost for 8 years of mumbling by BO?

[When I first wrote this I went down the wrong trail. I meant to express what is now in the OP: that Rom 2 is one of the major indicators that Paul thought the worldwide day of judgement was right after the horrible events about to happen in Judea. I hope I didn't lose too many with the other...

As you can tell from the expression 'being born again' (even in the text!) it is an image; it is not the actual, literal thing he was talking about. Even Nic asked him about that, and found out he was using a figure of speech. There are two parts of salvation: 1, the work of God in Christ in...

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There is no distinction any more between Jew and Gentile. Paul said that there was wrath upon Israel in the coming destruction of Jerusalem, and wrath upon the rest of the nations after that. This is consistent with what Mt 24 etc said. He did not think there would be a delay between them...

If someone can show where the truth of the Bible or God, according to the apostles, finally rests on a view of a future Israel, please do! In Romans, that is never the thing that resolves this problem, or question. The question is resolved in the belief that Christ fulfilled what was promised...

Please post any links on this. He said he had Ohio constitutional right not to do any marriages at all. I only saw the item on Fox text crawler last night.

#6 of 10. The previous was: Acts 26 shapes Israel's outcome. [re threaded with a TITLE this time; it seems to help get people involved!] #6: The "people" of Mt 21's vineyard workers parable who receive the kingdom are the church, the honest, actual believers, no matter their race, education...

#6 of 10. The previous was: Acts 26 shapes Israel's outcome. #6: The "people" of Mt 21's vineyard workers parable who recieve the kingdom are the church, the honest, actual believers, no matter their race, education, gender, tribe or tongue. The term used is surprisingly 'ethnei' which is...

"Anger must be the right kind and the right amount at the right person at the right time." --Dr. D. Seamands When James 1 says human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God, what context is this? What does the context say a person would have been angry about?

Paul could have saved himself a lot of trouble by saying that there was another round for Israel as such in Acts 26. But he didn't. He couldn't. Instead he says that the hope of Israel is already fulfilled in the resurrection, which is what he said in 13's sermon. And he's still trying to...

If the place/authority of Scripture, including the place of the NT over the OT, is not established, what is the point of claiming a certain position to be Christian? Anything means everything is Christian. Our dark world is brute statisticism: if some Christians do something then it is...