Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-27 NASB Rule– There are two important verbs that are…
But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 1 Timothy 2:12 NASB Exercise Authority– You have got to be kidding me! That is probably the immediate contemporary reaction to the face-value interpretation of Paul’s remark. If what Paul says is really the biblical model for the…
Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Genesis 2:7 NASB Man – Sometimes Christian theologians argue that because man was created first, men have primacy of authority over women. Bruce Ware makes this argument is his…
And Jesus said to them, “Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things.” Luke 20:8 NASB Authority – We all want to know, don’t we? “Who says so?” The constant insistence on recognized authority. So if I come back with the answer, “Well, I heard it from YouTube,” my claim will…
According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left. Deuteronomy 17:11 NASB Turn aside – It all comes down to choosing whom…
“If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.” John 20:23 NASB APOLOGY: Yesterday there was no TW posted, principally due to the fact that by the time I realized that it wasn’t going out, I was on an airplane…
If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. Exodus 21:10 NASB Conjugal rights – If you were ever to doubt the upside-down nature of the Hebraic view of the role of women, this verse would surely seem to confirm that the Hebrew culture stood…
All who accept the yoke of the Torah are relieved of the yoke of the government and the yoke of worldly affairs. All who cast off the yoke of Torah, the yoke of the government and the yoke of worldly affairs is put upon them. Pirke Avot 3:6 Yoke – No, you won’t find this…
So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD had commanded him. Exodus 19:7 NASB Set before them – Until the revolution of the “new,” no one wanted to embrace a way of life that did not have a long legacy of success. In…
According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left. Deuteronomy 17:11 NASB Turn aside – It all comes down to choosing whom…
