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…

Voiding the Death Certificate

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.  1 Corinthians 15:26  NASB Will be abolished is – If you read this verses in the NASB, it appears that Paul projects the destruction of death into the future.  At some unspecified time, death will finally be overcome.  It will be abolished.  But the verb, katargeo,…