Railing against the Text of Scripture
… and against God. John Hobbins thinks you should. I think he makes a pretty good scriptural case!
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So now that you have been freed from sin, you have become enslaved to righteousness. — Romans 6:18 (my translation) Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. — Romans 6:18 (NLT) And yet there are those who think Paul taught easy believism!
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Going from words to meaning and from principles to sound action is hard work. We need to make the effort, but also recognize the reality: We won’t necessarily get there.
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… and I have clawed my way back onto the list, at a miserable #43. Ah well, it helps if one actually blogs!
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I get into more trouble with the word “rebuke” than with just about any other. Perhaps I could find a bit less loaded of an English word to translate this concept, but it’s an important one. I mentioned teaching about “the skills of rebuking and being rebuked.” This tends to disturb people. Why? I think…
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I just extracted a note from Dave Black’s blog to The Jesus Paradigm. (That site supports his book by the same name as well as a few others that don’t have their own domain name.) In it Dave talks about admonishing, encouraging, and upholding. You’ll have to go read the post to find out what…
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Byhenry
I’m planning to start doing some discussion of Bible passages using Google Hangouts on Air during the coming year. Basically, I’m going to work through material I intend to use in Sunday School. One may ask why I’m doing this, considering that the last time I tried, I had little success. Well, the difference is…
Text Today – Slave of Righteousness
Byhenry
So now that you have been freed from sin, you have become enslaved to righteousness. — Romans 6:18 (my translation) Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. — Romans 6:18 (NLT) And yet there are those who think Paul taught easy believism!