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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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Psalm 8

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. 1  O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2  Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. 3  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4  what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 5  Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6  You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, 7  all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8  the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9  O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! ...
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Tackling Tradition 21: Petrine Primacy & the Key of David

It’s not unusual to find Roman Catholics arguing for Petrine Primacy by way of Isaiah 22.   Arguing from Matthew 16, so they say, Christ gave the keys to Peter who is, in turn, the faithful steward prophesied in Isaiah 22. Here is the text.  15  Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 16  What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? 17  Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you 18  and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house. 19  I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. 20  In that day I will call my servant Eliakim th...
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Dialogue With Skeptic (Part 4): Mark’s Gospel

Robert J Rolle has decided to publish his thoughts about Mark’s Gospel on his YouTube channel. He brings up a number of issues, so I thought I would address them here, since they represent the sort of thing that I see on Instagram as well as YouTube these days.  Anonymous Authorship He notes that the Gospels are all anonymous.  No, they aren’t.  See here .  He also notes that Mark doesnt contain a birth narrative, which is true.  I’m not really sure why critics think this an issue. Lack of a Birth Narrative The absence of a birth narrative does not put the text at odds with Matthew & Luke.    Rather, it demonstrates that the author had a specific narrative intent related to the possibility that the text would one day be used for teaching purposes related to the understanding of the 3fold use of the Law & Gospel.  King : Luke’s primary audience is the Gentile community.     He depicts Christ as the theandric Caesar. ...
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