In his Thoughts on Religious Experience, Archibald Alexander asked why we grow so slowly as Christians. First, he rounded up the usual suspects: “The influence of worldly relatives and companions, embarking too deeply in business, devoting too much time to amusements, immoderate attachment to a worldly object,” etc. But then he drilled down further and…
This chart is adapted from the lists in the standard Greek texts, NA27 and UBS4. It may appear to include considerably fewer citations than would be expected, because it focuses only on exact quotations. The NT is filled with allusions to the OT, so the fact that, e.g., there are only five places where the…
Jesus Christ: The Interpretive Key to the Scripture With Four Examples of Doctrinal Errors that Arise When this Key is not Used. “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may…
John Feinberg suggests eight tests for moral decision-making in matters that are not absolutes: The first question is, am I fully persuaded that it is right? Paul says (Rom 14:5, 14, 23) that whatever we do in these areas, we must be persuaded it is acceptable before God. If we are not fully persuaded, we…
Idolatry in the Old Testament A good place to start to grasp the contours of idolatry in the Old Testament is from the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20. The first two commandments in vv.3-5 are, “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any…
