Category: Biblical Studies
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Exegesis and Eisegesis – Who Are These Characters?
Exegesis means drawing the meaning out of a text, especially Scripture, by paying attention to its context, grammar, and original intent. Eisegesis means reading your own ideas or assumptions into a text instead of letting the text speak for itself. In plain language Exegesis tries to understand the passage as its original audience would have understood it, while eisegesis…
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Judging Angels – Part 2 From Daniel to Jesus to Paul: How the Saints Share in God’s Judgment.
“Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts? Do you not know that we will judge angels? 1 Corinthians 6:2-3. The apostle Paul’s statement in this passage that believers will “judge the world” and “judge…
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God’s Mercy and Judgment: How They Work Together
Discover how God’s mercy and judgment work together in the Bible through the prophets and Revelation, revealing His purpose to heal, restore, and redeem humanity. “For the LORD (YAHWEH) is our judge …; He will save us”Isaiah 33:22 One of the most common questions Christians ask is how a God of mercy can also be…
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Parables – To invite or to exclude?
The Paradox of Parabolic Hardening: A Remedial Reading of Matthew 13:15 “For the heart of this people has become dull, with their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes, lest they would see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and return, and I would heal them.”…
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John 3:16 – A Universalist Passage
Some verses in the Bible get so familiar, we stop really hearing them. John 3:16 is one of those. Most of us learned it as kids. We saw it on posters. Some folks even painted it on football helmets. “For God so loved the world…” And we think we already know what that means. But…
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Matthew 8:11-12 and Luke 13:24-30
Matthew 8:11-12, “Many coming from east and west, reclining at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, but the sons of the kingdom being cast out into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,” and its parallel but more in depth passage in Luke 13:22-30 present…
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Isaiah 11 A Little Child Shall Lead Them, and the Healing of the Nations
Isaiah 11:1–9, especially the image of the child leading formerly predatory animals, presents not merely a poetic vision of harmony but a theological promise of moral and spiritual transformation of all, including the restoration of the worst offenders – from Isaiah to Jesus to Paul to Revelation.