Spiritual Presumption

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.  Romans 11:21  NASB Spare – Why did God break off some of the branches from the root of the olive tree?  Ah, before you answer, notice a few things.  First, only some of the braches were broken off.  Not all Israel…

Holiness by Extension

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.  Romans 11:16  ESV Root – Nothing too unusual about this word, rhiza.  Root of a plant.  Foot of a mountain.  Depths of the sea.  By the time rabbinic Judaism developed in the…