Of course, we will have the naysayers who point to men like Samson who took Nazarite vows (Numbers 6:1-21) which forbid them from cutting their hair or other examples of women shaving their heads when in mourning for the death of loved ones. These situations are exceptions to God’s com...
Some critics of wife-spanking complain that we must have a specific instance of a woman being physically disciplined by her husband in the Bible to justify a husband spanking his wife. But we do not need specific examples of behaviors to justify behaviors. As long as a behavior does not...
Deck the Halls with boughs of holly, and “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.” There’s nothing wrong with any of that. When I was a child, singing Christmas songs like Silent Night and Joy to the World … around the piano with my ...
Three days ago, the Gospel Coalition put out apreview from a book by Josh Butler, namedBeautiful Union: How God’s Vision for Sex Points Us to the Good, Unlocks the True, and (Sort of) Explains Everything.Keep in mind that this is not a self-published article and book by a lone bl...
The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant [testament] with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain...
In the Old Testament, Jerome appealed from the Greek version to the “Hebraic verity” and in such a work as his commentary on Daniel provided some fine examples of historical exegesis. Augustine, though not primarily an exegete, composed both literal and allegorical commentaries and expository ...
Fathers house at that great time of reunion and rejoicing. +++ FYI – You FAILED, Allan, of attempting to tear-down GOD’s promise to His chosen that are written in the Book of Life. (I Thessalonians 5:4,9-10) Be Ready, Be Prepared, Be Joyful in LORD CHRIST JESUS!
“faint impressions of the truth that is above all examples.” He says his aim is “giving drink to all lovers of truth in a small container.” That, I think, is an beautiful description of all doctrinal apparatuses, terminologies, and analogies: they simply give us a little cup to hold...
Of the works adopting such a focus, de Jonge 1992 and Fabry and Scholtissek 2002 are good examples. Although largely in the same vein, other volumes, such as Charlesworth 1992 and Hogeterp 2009, attempt to be more precise, avoiding the assumption that the history of the idea of a ...
The fact that the Apostle Peter commands women, Christian women, to follow the examples of Old Testament women like Sarah who called their husband’s “lord” (master) confirms for us that a husband’s mastery over his wife was God’s design from the very beginning of creation. How Maste...