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TOJ #140: The gospel will be proclaimed throughout the world before the end. [MT 24:14//MK 13:10] Although believers should seek to evangelize the world and work to bring God’s peace on earth, Jesus indicates most people will reject their efforts (TOJ #46). TOJ #141: The “abomination that...

While the mystery was not fully revealed until Jesus taught it to Paul, who taught it in his epistles, especially EPH as you noted, there were hints and foreshadowings in the OT, including: GN 15:6. Abraham’s faith in the Lord was credited to him as righteousness. This was a major theme of...

Premature perhaps, but very first! :^)

I have found this verse to be so relevant for discussion on some CC threads that I think it ought to be repeated before we go on to the next key OT passage. DT 30:19. We have moral free will, which makes us accountable for our attitudes and actions, our belief and behavior, with ultimate...

On the one hand the purpose of God for the Jews of providing Messiah/Christ for all humanity has been accomplished, so their current importance in God's POS should fade as the role of Christians or the church of Christ increases per the Great Commission, but on the other hand Zionism and wealthy...

The 205 commandments or teachings of Jesus are being presented a few at a time for your commentary on the TOJ thread.

Okay, God reforms individuals to make them more compatible, which has the effect of reforming a group of individuals comprising what is called a religion or faith, and yes, God finished the OC as He started the NC per HB 7:18-10:1.

Ditto, and may I be the first to wish you and all CC folks a happy NY filled with many blessings!

Not well enough on CC, which is why on another thread Rufus proposed that "all participants make a pact (or covenant, if you will) to sheath our swords and put away our knives from henceforth. Let us all forgo the insults, the derogatory name calling, straw men, red herrings, deflections, and...

Amen. This is why I posted to Mem in #5409 by way of a constructive criticism that we try to improve our discussions on CC by doing what we can to keep the general direction going toward essential agreement/unity rather than being content (or even seeming to prefer) getting stuck going in...

So I guess what you do is exogesis. Interpreting the OT in light of the Gospel as the NT authors did and correctly applying our God-given reasoning ability to believe the Scriptures I cited teach God's omnipresence are NOT eisegesis.

I believe Paul's teaching in 2CR 5:7 that we live by faith rather than sight regarding God or ultimate reality and that life presents humanity with the choice between two opposing faiths, God/Christ or atheism, just as A&E had to choose between believing God or the serpent and Moses presented...

Now that we have reached the end of the HOB and constructed a pneumonic framework, let us consider the implications for our Christian faith. For starters, we noted that secular histories of mankind commonly begin by describing polytheistic civilization in Mesopotamia the and Egypt. The first...

Not really. Which type of sin do we not need to confess: singular or plural, qualitative or quantitative?

Oops! Yes, can't blame it on the wassail either! :^) The spirit realm, not being physical, is not one of the physical dimensions. Yes, nor does it say creation exists where God is not present.

The spirit realm, not being physical, is not one of the spiritual dimensions. If Jesus' incarnation is God's appearance within creation as a physical, mortal being, then there is no good reason to think creation is not God's appearance as physical, material things. While the Flatland analogy...

I attended services, which were like seminary lectures in systematic theology, at a remote learning site augmented by reel-to-reel tapes (you heard me right :^) for two or three years.

Don't stop there! Paul's prayer/wish continues in EPH 3:16-19, "I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may...

Genez and I studied under R.B. Thieme, who was a graduate of DTS, whereas I attended SWBTS. However, I believe my main teachers have been the writers of GW & the HS, culminating in the Gospels containing the TOJ and the epistles of Paul, after whom I named my son. Although I was raised as a...

Also to Dino, Like Eli, I also find the concept of dimensions helpful for understanding God: a point is one dimension, a line is another, a plane adds a third, physical/material space is a fourth, and divine spirit or Word is at least a fifth dimension. The creation is Spirit/Word manifesting...