acquiescence, agreement, ascendancy, avowal
I. Introduction 1Pe 1:13-16 We do not wish to discuss at length Redemption, Salvation, Belief, and Faith in this paper, though these, as anchored by Jesus Christ, are the starting point in one’s pursuit of holiness—we have discussed these very important starting points in another paper—the reader may wish to peruse that paper in this
I. Introduction In this study we are going to assume that the descendants of Noah knew who Jehovah God was and knew His commands and requirements. We are not interested in the details of lineages or what happened to these people or why in the interim between the great Flood and the time of
I. Introduction Our Savior warns us that the devil is the father of lies, and that when he so speaks he is speaking his natural language. Furthermore, Jesus explains that Satan is a murderer—a killer (Jhn 8:44). It it is but a short step to recognize that deceit is one of the prime weapons he
I. Jehovah God Cannot Overlook Sin Would Jehovah God, the One who swears by His own Name (Gen 22:15-18, Isa 45:23, Jer 49:13, 51:14, Amo 6:8, Hbr 6:13-20), overlook without recompense even one breach of His standards, which breach we understand to be sin? One may as well ask—would He thus compromise and destabilize His
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. Introduction The reader is encouraged to read our “Matthew Chapter Twenty-Three, A Commentary,” and “The Caesarea Philippi Shift” as preparatory introductions to this study. This study is stand-alone however, and therefore it is not necessary that you do so. We decided to entitle this study and its sister-study “The Caesarea Philippi Shift: Holy Week
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I. Introduction “Canon is a word that originates from a Semitic root that means ‘reed’ and survives in English also as the word ‘cane’ [the English is cognate with the Latin canon= “rule” and the Greek kanon= “measuring rod” or “rule”]. It originally referred to a straight reed or stalk that served as a measuring
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I. Introduction This study is interested in comparing the content of first and second Samuel and first and second Kings with the content of first and second Chronicles. Points of particular interest are: To what material in Samuel/Kings does the author of Chronicles add. What material does he omit. What material is paralleled. Our goal,
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I. Introduction Our God in the person of our Savior Jesus Christ entered human history in a region of the world known as the Holy Land, or Palestine. Modern Palestine is approximately coincident with modern Israel and parts of Jordan. It is expedient for the believer to study the character of this region in
I. Introduction The reader may wish to peruse our “Gospels Criticism (Part One)” as a preparatory introduction to this study. Our purpose here is to prayerfully render a critical analysis of Professor Rudolf Bultmann’s New Testament & Mythology (Bultmann|Ogden; Bultmann|bio). We are motivated to do this analysis because contemporary sentiment toward the New Testament
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I. IntroductionPlease see figure one for a pictorial summary of the historical periods this study overlaps. Gospels criticism is the same largely cerebral estimation of Scripture as is biblical criticism per se (“Biblical Criticism”), except that the subject is the New Testament; specifically, the subject is the gospels ( Mat 1:1ff, Mar 1:1ff, Luk 1:1ff,
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