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It is unfortunate that the important question about the deluge always ends up on the location of Noah's ark. This happened as recently as last fall's 'search for Noah's ark' release. All the chips were on that play. The deluge is instead an ENORMOUS GLOBAL GEOLOGICAL event by comparison with...

Because they are looking for an actual muscular kingdom of David on a throne in Jerusalem, Dispensationalists would not have attended the parade. A guy on a young donkey? You've got to be kidding!

The D'ist is afraid that the Bible is not reliable if there is no Davidic kingdom in Israel forthcoming. 1, the methodology is wrong. We are CHRISTIANS which means we read the OT as people IN CHRIST, and that it is fulfilled IN CHRIST. 2, Paul answers your doubt in Acts 13! The resurrection...

The D'ist is afraid that the Bible is not reliable if there is no Davidic kingdom in Israel forthcoming. 1, the methodology is wrong. We are CHRISTIANS which means we read the OT as people IN CHRIST, and that it is fulfilled IN CHRIST. 2, Paul answers your doubt in Acts 13! The resurrection...

Nowhere in Romans does saved mean a restoration of Israel's theocracy. It is instead a way of grouping the 3 aspects of redemption together: justification, sanctification, glorification. In 11 itself, Paul is urging Jews to be at work in God's mission to the nations, and not to rely on one's...

The public defense of the Christian message is in a very odd situation because of Dispensationalism: while the weakest and most distant arguments are supposed to be believed, the most forceful and obvious demonstration of the truth of the Bible is held in suspicion by a clunking 'theology'...

The NT has the following things to say about the land. It does not depict Christ doing or even aware of a land promise offer to follow up on. 1, Mt 5. The meek would inherit Israel, but not the zealots. Most of the Sermon on the Mount was said with them in mind. He tried to win and change...

The chapter makes it very clear what is going on with the promises to the fathers and the incoming of the believers from all nations. It has great OT quotes to underwrite this. It then does one other thing that we should all pay attention to: a defining of spiritual and physical blessings...

The section titles of Moses writing Moses writing often had section titles. His units of material often follow this pattern: 1, title or topic 2, background 3, new material One of the reasons for this is that it was originally oral, told around herders and desert trekkers'...

As you may know, most of the NT is in Koine Greek which is relatively easy to work in. One exception is Luke-Acts which has triple the vocabulary and gets more complex in sentence structure. Still Greek was the market language of the day, so everything important was published in Greek. But...

If you've read ch 10-11 attentively, you know that Paul would really like to see Israel in the mission of God. There are advantages to that. There is then the question in the trees and grafting section of 11 about who is really in the 'Israel' that Paul is talking about. The reason there is a...

Yes, we use the OT as background for the NT, but we don't pretend that the OT came after the NT. Rather that the NT came after and culminates things and matures them. The age of the child trainer or governess is over, Gal 4. Israel itself no longer exists for its own sake. It is to be part...

There is really not much different about Isaiah past ch 60. Most of the same themes that have been running are still there. Looking at a reference book on NT quotes of 60-66, there are some 45 selections used. The question, once one knows the NT, is whether the happy news of restoration...

1, Christ is the man who ascended to heaven and recieved a kingdom; he had left business in the charge of others. 2, the business is the mission of the Gospel, and especially what Jews should be doing about it 3, they didn't want the job; they hated him. He was 'made king' anyway 4, Some of...

First, I mean to say that futurist would be a very distant future. There simply is no conception like that in the NT. Almost all references to the 2nd coming in judgement, resulting in a NHNE were that it would be right after the Destruction of Jerusalem, and even that is not necessarily set...

Codex Clownicus (Cl)has been recently located in upper Phrigia and scholars are amazed to find a collation of v5 and 12 of Rev 5. They now realize that v12 was supposed to read: "Worthy is the Lion of Judah who has retaken Israel." (It was formerly thought to be ...the Lamb who was slain.)...

Once we know that the NT has quoted the OT, we are informed to look for something in an OT passage that we might not have seen otherwise. You are probably familiar with the Phillippians 2 passage about 'every knee will bow.' It is believed to be an early Christian song, and some translations...

As for the stupidity of 'when did the prophets say grace was coming?' (I can't really believe someone would ask that): 2 Cor 6:1+ (based on what just got said in ch 5...). It's a quote from Isaiah about a whole age that was coming... A whole time period. I PETER 1:10: the prophets spoke of the...

The so-called kingdom gospel was never offered. They wanted it, but it was never offered, Jn 6. He was offering the mission promised to Abraham to all nations. He began some of it (Jn 4), he trained people in a practice session on their own people, to develop more missionaries. But never a...

What is fascinating about this is its demonstration once again there is no 2P2P. Why would Paul have to say this? Because many in Judaism believed the inheritance would come through the institution or program or observance of the law. Those are the people among whom the Gospel took place...