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Great Guide – Unreachable Goal

Byhenry February 8, 2017

Pure exegesis is a great guide but an unreachable goal.

Bible Passages | Bible Study | Christianity | Soteriology

Perspectives on Paul: Some Comparisons between Galatians and Romans
Byhenry January 19, 2017
This will continue the discussion, dealing more with definitions. In the area of soteriology (the study of salvation) we frequently make the same statements in terms of words and structure, yet mean something quite different by it. “Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins” means quite different things, depending on who…
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Dr TK Dunn on the Importance of the Old Testament
Byhenry February 1, 2025May 5, 2025
This is an extract from a longer interview, which I will also embed. I think Dr. Dunn has some valuable comments on the relationship of scripture and what it means for our study. And here’s the full interview from which that was extracted.
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Numbers 31 – An Unsatisfactory Response
Byhenry June 20, 2016
Since I have been reading the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary on Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy along with the text, I wanted to place a short note about the response to this passage in that commentary. (The author of the Leviticus portion is Dale A Brueggemann.) He notes the command to slaughter all the males, including the…
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Bible Commentary | Bible Passages | Bible Study | Christianity | Discipleship

Matthew 6:9b – Father
Byhenry June 10, 2025June 9, 2025
A look at fatherood and the Lord’s Prayer. What can we learn from God as our Father?
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Bible Study | Biblical Criticism | Christianity | Hebrew Bible | Isaiah | Textual Criticism

Isaiah 24-27 – Overview
Byhenry April 20, 2006
Many of the issues of Biblical criticism are illustrated in these four chapters from the book of Isaiah. The book of Isaiah as a whole is fertile ground for such study, but one has to take a reasonable sized bite for an illustration. What I want to do with these chapters is discuss how various…
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My Own Custom Bible
Byhenry October 8, 2014
I have in my inbox an e-mail sent on behalf of the American Bible Society. The subject line reads: “Create your own Custom Bible from American Bible Society.” I suspect some folks are thinking I’m going to draw the obvious lesson that we shouldn’t have our own custom Bible. After all, the correct Sunday School…
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