For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. Romans 7:14 NASB Sold into bondage – pipráskō. To dispose of as merchandise, to sell into slavery. Preisker writes that Paul’s use of the verb in Romans 7 is “the desperate plight of the person.”[1] But we…
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. I John 2:15 NASB The world – Every idea has a history. Ideas about biblical truths are not self-generated from the text. Biblical truths are products of interpretation, and…
Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen. Exodus 33:23 NASB My back – By now you realize that this translation must be incorrect. God is spirit. He is not corporeal. He does not have a “back.” This is a case where the…
After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will. Acts 13:22 NASB After my heart – Let’s consider David. What was his life really like?…
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming? For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean?” Acts 17:19-20 NASB Strange things – Over a decade has passed since I…
But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. John 16:13 NASB All the truth – Gnostic thought is alive and well in the…
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8 NASB Let’s try a summary of the less controversial discoveries we made over these years. Each of these has…
In the beginning was the word . . . John 1:1 NASB Word – We are not going to go another round on the Trinitarian debate over this verse. What we are going to do is examine how much of the Hellenized world was influenced by the Greek concept of logos. To do that, we…
But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none; and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not…
Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. Ruth 1:1 NASB Judges – Today is Brutus day, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated, March 15, the Ides of March. That is Roman history. So what does it have to do with the Bible? In…
