All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 2 Timothy 3:16 NASB All Scripture – How many times have we investigated the nuances and implications of this single verse? A dozen? Two dozen? It seems that Paul’s statement in a letter to a pupil just…
All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 2 Timothy 3:16 NASB Teaching/ rebuke/ correction/ training – Paul tells us the purpose of “inspired Scripture.” He’s quite deliberate about it, but did you notice what is strikingly absent? Let’s see. Scripture is useful for “teaching.” Didaskalía, that…
All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 2 Timothy 3:16 NASB Inspired – Paul’s choice of the Greek word for “inspired” leaves us hanging. Why? Because the word isn’t used anywhere else in the apostolic writings. Theópneustos literally means “God breathed,” but that leaves a lot…
All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 2 Timothy 3:16 NASB Scripture – What does Paul mean when he uses the Greek term graphḗ? Before we can answer that, we need to know something about the wider meaning of the term in the first century. graphḗ…
Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV Scripture – What does Peter mean by the Greek term gráphēs? …
Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV Someone’s own interpretation – Hendel, Martone, Orlinsky, Alter, Hoffman . ….
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one with his household: Exodus 1:1 NASB Came to Egypt – Bob Bartels wrote to me. “I am finally realizing and enjoying the thought that the Bible is not a textbook but a story of God’s interaction with…
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…
While I am being an invalid confined to the apartment, I have had time to read, and I just finished the second of two books worth mentioning. First is William Tucker’s Marriage and Civilization (Regnery, 2014). While you might not embrace Tucker’s early evolutionary view of the development of monogamy in animal kingdoms and pre-historical…
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness 2 Timothy 3:16 NASB Scripture – Sometimes the truth overpowers paradigm assumptions. Sometimes men who stand theologically apart nevertheless see the same revelation. Jacques Ellul and Abraham Heschel both come to the same conclusion when they consider…
