The Rational Apologetic

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.”  John 3:16 NASB Believes – In an online document entitled, “How to Motivate Anyone to Become a Christian,” the author offers the following as “compelling” proof (I will not cite this source) that…

A Remedy Comes Before The Sickness

And not only this, but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.  Romans 5:11  NASB Reconciliation – Reconciliation: noun: 1 the restoration of friendly relations: his reconciliation with your uncle | the colonel was seeking a reconciliation with his wife. 2 the action of making one view or belief compatible with another: he aims to bring about a reconciliation…

Jude’s Law

to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.  Jude 1:25  NIV Only – Jude wrote this letter toward the end of the first century CE.  By then Messianic assemblies were established in many cities of the Mediterranean world.  Jude’s language shows…

Theological Correctness

Are You not from time everlasting, Lord, my God, my Holy One?  We will not die.  Habakkuk 1:12a  NASB We – What is a tiqun sofrim? As you might guess, it is a written restoration, a place where a scribe corrected the text because of the theological implication.  In this case, the Masoretic text reads “we,”…

The Jewish Messiah

And He continued by questioning them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered and said to Him, “You are the Christ.”  Mark 8:29  NASB Who – Most of us realize that virtually all the followers of Yeshua in the early part of the first century were Jewish.  That means Jews thought Yeshua was the Messiah long…

Messianic?

“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a…

The Apostle’s Sources

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,  1 Corinthians 15:3-4  NASB Received – Who told Paul that Yeshua died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the…

The Magical Translator

concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,  Romans 1:3-4  NASB The resurrection from– Magic often depends on sleight of hand.  The magician makes you look at one thing while he does…

92 to 0  (Rewind)

“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”  John 8:24 NASB Believe– John uses the Greek “believe” in one form or another ninety-two times in his gospel.  It is never once a noun.  Pisteuo is a verb, a verb…

Messiah and King

saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” Matthew 2:2  ESV King– Christian teaching has conditioned us to believe that the Jews expected a personal redeemer/Messiah from the time of Moses.  This is partly due to the interpretation of Messianic prophecies in the Tanakh…