Category: New Testament Exegesis
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Interpreting Paul’s Argument for God’s Faithfulness to Israel in Romans 9-11 through the Lens of the Case of Balaam in Numbers 22-24 Incorporating the Dual Nature of The Word of God
We will begin our examination of the thesis as stated in the title at Romans chapter 9 verse 6 where Paul writes, “[οὐ] εκπέπτωκεν ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ ~ the word of God has [not] fallen” (i.e., that God has kept His word), which I take to be the infallible word of God as revealed…
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A Layman’s View of Supra- vs Infralapsarianism as Based on Paul’s “Vessels of Wrath” and “Vessels of Mercy” in Romans 9
Not having received formal theological training, nor having read systematic theology in a diligent manner, I feel inadequate to attempt a bifurcation of the concepts of supra- vice infralapsarianism. My only conclusion, which is based in part on my dismay that a rigorous study of the Word of God has come to necessitate being able…
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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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An Examination of the Phrase “The Lord’s Day”
Among the more important phrases that we need to consider regarding the cacophonous cataclysm that will take place at the end of time [Please cf. https://the-dragon-is-slain.com/2024/12/03/the-roar-of-war-the-roar-of-death-and-the-roar-of-victory-the-eternal-sons-roar-was-heard-once-and-will-be-heard-once-more-are-you-ready/ ] is found in the very beginning of the book of Revelation, where John describes the setting for what he was about to write at the behest of the…
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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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Does the Apostle John’s Account of Yeshua’s Via Dolorosa Pilgrimage Contradict That of the Other Three Gospels?
Let’s start from the beginning, keeping in mind the observation from Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon regarding the Koine Greek preposition ‘εις’: when used with “names of cities, villages, countries, [it is to be translated as] ‘to,’ ‘toward’;” “of motion (not into a place itself, but) into the vicinity of a place, [it is to be translated…
The Dragon is Slain 