Also, in relation to this, Paul writes that Jesus came “at the appointed time” (Galatians 4:4). Other New Testament authors say similar things. While there is truth with this answer, it really doesn’t answer the question. All it does it move the question back. If Jesus came at th...
Another example is Galatians 6:1, where Paul tells the Galatians, “If a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.” Must we conclude that Paul means for us to think that the Galatians are invisible and not physical in nature?
Galatians 5:22 – 26 (ESV). But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong in Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we li...
Again, Paul did not believe the Greek philosophers who taught the immortality of all souls, neither did Yeshua (Jesus):I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. (John 6:51)...
Peter’s actions created a huge problem. An identity crisis surfaced for many, including Barnabas. Paul writes, “I opposed him [Peter] to his face, for what he did was very wrong” (Galatians 2:11 NLT). This was Peter’s first cross-cultural coaching tip:Monocultural living breeds prej...
in Galatians 5:19-21, and this is the passage that converted me to orthodoxy. I think maybe I’m the only person in history that read this passage and converted. But this is the passage that converted me to orthodoxy. And St. Paul writes, “Now the works of the flesh are evident,...
MARY HAD 6 OTHER CHILDREN:“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary,the brother ofJames, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon?and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.”Mark 6:3 (KJB). Not only did Mary have other children, the Bible names Jesus’ ...
Paul writes that the love of Christ surpasses all knowledge (Ephesians 3:19). Someone who has the precious gift of prophecy, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and is able to convince a mountain to move out of his way, but has no love, is nothing (1 Corinthians 13:2),...
Paul likewise upheld the penal standards of the Mosaic judicial law (Acts 25:11).Here we have the first use of the phrase "Mosaic judicial law." This raises many questions. First, with regard to Paul inActs 25. An argument can be made that Paul did not "uphold the standards of the ...
Paul repeatedly states that faith is intimately linked with trust and obedience, referring to the “obedience of faith” (Rom. 1:5), exhorting the Christians at Philippi to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12), and telling the Galatians that circumcision is ...