“In the Old Testament, Gentiles were under no obligation whatever to become Jews. They could be saved without becoming Jews, and many of them were saved without becoming Jews. The Jews were not the believers of the Old Testament, but were rather the priestly people of the Old Testament. ...
The Gentile Mission in Old Testament Citations in Acts. By James A. Meekdoi:10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00523_33.xPatrick MadiganBlackwell Publishing Ltd
Conflict often arose in the early church when the Jewish Christians insisted on passing their religious culture on totheGentileChristians. sallee.info sallee.info 在初期教会中,往 往是在犹太的基督徒 坚持要把他们的宗教 文化传给外邦基督徒的时候,冲突就产生 了。
Adam and Eve fell because of their Pride in thinking they could be like God. But there are a few steps between Pride and the Fall, which if we are keenly aware of, we could prevent ourselves from falling, by the Grace of God. God speaks of Pride many a time in the Scripture, and ...
Why did the Gentile church keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry, but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity? If there were any binding norms, what made them so, and on what basis were they articulated?In this important study, Markus Bockmuehl approaches...
Turning to the New Testament, he observed, "The Hebrew word `Satan' was adopted into the Greek language; whence we meet with it in the New Testament."7 As in the Old Testament, it was thus claimed that `Satan' means adversary, but he observed that in the New Testament there is a "...
Employing a historically-informed narrative-critical approach to Luke-Acts, this work illuminates Luke's portrayals of Roman officials in light of the Jewish portrayals of Gentile rulers in both the Old Testament and in Second Temple literature. Luke's worldview is holistic: bo...