Division is not in and of itself a good thing; but sometimes it can be a way of showing who has God’s approval. And Scripture is also clear as to who the ones are who do not have God’s approval. It is those who are responsible for the division in the first place. And who are...
to point forward to the salvific work of Christ.(15)And like Schnackenburg, he accepts the statements of John 5:18 at face value. Jesus was breaking the Sabbath.(16)He unites these arguments with a covenantal perspective(17)that he imports from his study of other parts of Scripture.(18...
Scripture teaches both. You can accept that or not – no spoon-feeding on the matter provided here. If you don’t like the idea (and most folks probably won’t), even quoting directly from scripture will be labeled as just ‘my opinion’. Check it out for yourself. This writer hopes ...