Posts Tagged ‘New Testament’
SysTheo work on Sonship in the NT
See attached for slidepack on Sonship in the New Testament. Where is all of this going? Wait and see . . .
DailyTheocentrism: Dependency reaches from the integrity of molecules to the trappings of men (John 15:5)
It is true. (John 15:5)
There were great ironies on the cross that D.A. Carson talks about here.
In line with that, it is true that while men were mocking the Lord on the Cross, He was, by the exercise of His will holding their molecules together; making the air respirate in their lungs that bore the blashphemous sounds to their tongues; maintaining the gravity that stayed them fast to the ground that His blood dripped upon; holding the planet on which they reside in its orbit around the sun; maintaining the integity of the universe in which IT resides. (Col. 1:17; Acts 17:28)
Even at the Cross of Calvary, it was through Him that all things are accomplished. (John 10:18)
Studies in Romans: The Faithfulness Of Jesus
Heading back into Romans to start us out when the church launches, thought I would place some of the exegetical work here. Full paper is attached as Word document below.
In the modern arena of New Testament Scholarship, there are no few debaters on the linguistic/semantic issue of the phrase, pistis Christou, in the Pauline corpus. The phrase appears seven times[1] in obvious forms and then debatable more in more esoteric forms. The debate rests around whether or not the phrase should be understood from an objective point or a subjective one. As an objective form, it would be translated, “faith in Christ.” In the subjective perspective, it would be understood as, “faith(fullness)[2] of Christ.” The thrust of the meaning change is obvious, but the nuanced facets of the actual argument take more of a straw-man quality. Those who oppose the subjective view say that it injures the New Testament’s teaching on the belief exercised by followers of Christ at salvation. This could not be father from the truth, as will be explained below. Read the rest of this entry »