Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; Genesis 12:1 NASB Go – lĕk-lekā’. As you can clearly see in the highlighted text below, this imperative is made up of several combined words. It’s not simply “Go.” The grammar…
May my heart be [ag]blameless in Your statutes, so that I will not be ashamed. Psalm 119:80 NASB Blameless – Martin Luther would have rejected the psalmist’s plea outright. A blameless heart was simply a human impossibility. Calvin would have had the same reaction. In fact, virtually all the Catholic theologians of the past followed the philosophical…
For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 1 Kings 11:4 NASB Turned – Solomon was an addict. That’s pretty much the only explanation that makes any sense…
