Category: ekklesia
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A Brief Exegesis of Isaiah 14 with 1948 as the Historical Baseline for Israel’s Future
After issuing a warning concerning Babylon’s imminent and permanent destruction, Isaiah looks forward to a future time of blessing for Israel, when Yahwah brings His people out of bondage from under the Babylonian exile. In chapter 14 verse 1 of his prophecy, Isaiah declares, “Yahwah will pity Jacob and will choose Israel again and will…
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The Rock: The Ekklesia’s Immovable yet Advancing Foundation
My post, Flint aka Rocky and the Rock: Peter and Yeshua, dealt with Yeshua’s interaction with Peter, only recorded in the Gospel according to Matthew16:18 , in which Yeshua addressed Simon bar Jonah as Kayfa~כֵּיפָא (Aramaic<Hebrew) > Kifas~Κηφας (transliterated into New Testament Greek with the obligatory ‘s‘ suffix indicating the masculine gender, which the Apostle…
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Flint aka Rocky and the Rock: Peter and Yeshua
Originally, this post was intended to be a succinct examination of Yeshua’s exchange with Simon Peter, according to Matthew’s gospel in chapter 16 verse 18, “And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my ekklesia, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.” However, no…
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One Holy Catholic Church – Not!
This post is the result of having just read two volumes that offer convincing arguments against the quasi-ecclesiastical organization (this nomenclature is mine and should not be attributed to the authors) called the Roman Catholic Church: A Primer On Roman Catholicism by John Gerstner; and, Evangelical Answers: A Critique of Current Roman Catholic Apologists by…
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A 1500-Year-old Inscription Points to the House of the Apostle Peter
The TV and internet news organization, Sat 7 Türk Haber, which promotes its mission as “news for Christians from Christians,” issued the above-entitled Turkish language article on September 5, 2022, from an unidentified original report. [As translation by Lahbrais O’Coileain] A team composed of Israeli and American archaeologists uncovered a 1500-year-old inscription on a centuries-old…
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Book Review: Martin Luther – The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
While reading three biographies of William Tyndale, each of the authors made a point of mentioning that in the course of translating the same into English, Tyndale had made extensive use of Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek. Since the Tyndale biographies’ focus centered on his love for…
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Book Review: William Tyndale
by J. F. Mozley This is the last of a trilogy of biographies I have read on William Tyndale. There is afourth biography, written by Robert Demaus in 1886, which served as one of themain sources of the present volume, written by Mozley in 1934. I decided toread Mozley’s biography of Tyndale because just as…
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Theoretical Reconstruction of the Derivation of the Conceptual Word ‘Church’
This fascinating study on the derivation of the word ‘church’ and its adoption into most translations of the Bible as the proper translation for the Greek εκκλησια (transliterated as ekklesia, Greek-based; or ecclesia, Latin-based) was spurred by a discussion in a book my wife and I read recently. The author claimed that in Hebrew, the…
The Dragon is Slain 