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I always thought Hebrews could be alternatively titled "Last chance fort Israel". With the destruction of the temple, Israel would not again have the opportunity to receive the earthly kingdom until the end of the tribulation.

The word "purchase" may be a simplistic way to describe something very complex. If the penalty of sin is death, The death of one innocent could erase the sin of the world. This balance could be built into the fabric of creation. Dominion of creation that passed from Adam to Satan could be...

Mar_11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Some attempt to apply...

There are differences between the critical text and the majority texts. For example, the end of Mark 16 is missing in the critical text. Most modern translations use the critical text which I consider inferior, but not cataclysmicly so. I find it sad that the reason for many modern...

If you echo someone who is in error, you should ask yourself what amount of guilt is yours. This is where the Berean approach can be helpful. Asking is this true can be useful.

If the "church" today are the actually believers in Christ and thus members of his body, perhaps it is the removal of the body of Christ that restrains.

The idea of eternal conscious torment (ECT) so often used to threaten people may not actually be true. The word translated "eternal" is aonis in the Greek and simply means an "age" which can be as short as a lifetime. In Romans eternal life is a gift from God. One can ask why that gift would be...

If the church today is the "body of Christ", why would god pour his wrath on it with the tribulation? 1Th 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

1Co 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 1Co 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep...

Corinth was a seaport town with two ports. Phillipi was a mining center and Roman mint as well has having many retired Roman army veterans. Rome only recently had Jews allowed to return.

This is an example of some of the confusion to be had by trying to combine everything in the New Testament and apply it to Christians today. The gospel of the kingdom intended for the nation of Israel had two interesting features. I promised resurrection unto eternal life and required law...

Jesus was speaking to those under the kingdom gospel offer tot he nation of Israel. This was perhaps in preparation for the tribulation or time of Jacob's trouble that would follow the nation receiving her Messiah. There is a roughly parallel verse for those Christians today under the grace...

The word baptize is a transliteration of the Greek baptizo which means to immerse. The translator knew this but in an age where everyone thought they had bought a ticket to heaven for their children by having them baptized,it would be unhealthy for them to use the English word immerse. Baptism...

Paul had written that those in Asia had abandoned him. This might mean that the churches in Asia had been diverted to the kingdom gospel that was what had been attempted in Galatia. Since some of the churches listed Revelation chapters 2-3 are the same as Paul wrote to, it might mean that these...

It might be helpful for young people to see their position as the end of childhood and at the point for starting their own families. We are all born helpless, ignorant, and selfish. Marriage and parenthood are extremely difficult and even painful for those who have not been able to reduce their...

Biblical love is essentially selflessness; 1Co 13:4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 1Co 13:5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 1Co 13:6 rejoiceth not in...

I paid to get the Wuest on esword as a reference because i find that he includes some verb tense information in his translation that is often left out of most other translations. His is a little more awkward in English, but it can help to identify if something is done once or repeatedly.

As understand it some scholars escaping the fall of Constantinople to the Muslims brought a few Greek texts with them when they came to Western Europe. This coupled with the recent invention of movable type allowed a wider distribution of these texts among scholars that would have been possible...

Even the KJV can benefit from looking at the original language. For example the English word "repent" is used to translate metanoia (to change one's mind). However "repent" is also used to translate metamellomai (regret). I consider myself KJVP (preferred) I think the majority text is better...

I would suggest that both the carnal man and the spiritual man apply to Christians who should be in the process of transitioning from the selfishness of the flesh to the selfless love of Christ-likeness.