Yeshua, Our Redeemer- Mediator

I Timothy 2:5 :  For  there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man   Christ Jesus. Acts 4:12 :   And there is  salvation  in no one else, for  there is no other  name under heaven given among men [ a ]  by which we must be saved.” Acts 16:31 : And they said,  “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you  and your household.” Of these, I think the ESV is not as accurate as it could be.   It makes it sound as if someone must believe in a set of facts & rely on Yeshua directly, as in intellectually assent to who He is & His person & work at one’s personal Vox Kephale in order to be justified.   The preposition  ἐπί in the text governs the accusative case object “the Lord Jesus,” & is, in my opinion, better translated as “on” rather than “in.” Yeshua is the Redeemer-Mediator of the whole of the LORD’s covenant system.   Rather than point us to a body of doctrinal ...
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Captain of My Kin

 (Derived from Invictus by William Ernest Henley)

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black from pole to pole,

I thank God who mighty is 

      I am His conquered soul.


In the clutch of circumstance

      I’ve neither winced nor cried aloud.

Under bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody & unbowed.


Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Still finds me unafraid.


It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged the scroll within;

I am the master of my fate,

      The captain of my kin



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