God Is Supreme: On Romans 11:36
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“To say that God is supreme means that God is superior to everyone and everything else. God has no rivals. He is unique.” - Andy Naselli
We Already Know the Rest of the Story
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“Salvation, however, is not just a one-way bus ticket to heaven, or the earth a bus stop where it doesn’t really matter what we do while we wait for the bus.” - IFWE
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Prohibition: A Movement of Prudish Killjoys or Righteous Revolutionaries?
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“A new book reenvisions temperance as a global struggle on behalf of the oppressed and exploited.” - CToday
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Why Did God Allow the Devil to Tempt Jesus?
I’m not simply referring to the reason why God allowed Christ to be tempted. I’m also querying God included the account of Christ’s temptation in the Bible. According to John’s Gospel, 20:30, Christ did many significant things in His lifetime that are not recorded in Scripture. Apparently, the Holy Spirit moved the writers of Scripture to record those events which were most necessary for the salvation of sinners and edification of the church.
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Review of ‘Covenant’ by Daniel I. Block (Part 3)
Read the series.
The “Law” was not Law even though it was Commanded
As we move on from Block’s discussion of what he calls “the Cosmic covenant” (i.e. Noahic) the “Adamic covenant” (?), and the “Israelite covenant” (i.e. the Abrahamic and the Mosaic together!) we next encounter the “New Israelite covenant” (275ff.). For reasons I shall attempt to explain this is what most call “the New covenant.”
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Justification: The Right Hill to Die On
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“One doctrine, justification by faith alone, is rightly called the doctrine by which the Church stands or falls. It was this doctrine that Martin Luther was, ultimately, being asked to recant but could not…. five hundred years later, it is still a worthy hill and mountain to stand upon” - Ref21
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Does It Really Matter Whether Adam Was the First Man?
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“The simple aim of this article is to show that, far from being a peripheral matter for fussy literalists, it is biblically and theologically necessary for Christians to believe in Adam as a historical person who fathered the entire human race.” - TGC
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Let’s Tone Down the Drama—and Cling to Jesus: A Review of ‘Letters of John Newton’
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“I’d never contemplated leaving the pastorate before. This year the idea came to mind. But the Lord was good and sent me a backup in the nick of time: through a string of circumstances, I came across an old copy of Letters of John Newton.” - TGC
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Review of ‘Covenant’ by Daniel I. Block (Part 2)
Read Part 1.
Block’s Definition of Covenant
Daniel Block’s Covenant: The Framework of God’s Grand Plan of Redemption is a big book around 700 pages long. It is very noteworthy when a prominent OT scholar takes up the challenge to write a book on the biblical covenants, and I am grateful to have such a work to study and repair to.
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Our Most Destructive Assumption About Heaven
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“…a veteran Bible student asked if I really believed we would eat and drink in the afterlife. I told him yes, since Jesus said so. Visibly shaken, he replied, ‘Engaging in physical activities in heaven sounds terribly unspiritual.’” - Alcorn
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