Simply put, a covenant is an agreement between two parties. In the context of the Bible, it is an agreement between God and man. Most folks are at least somewhat familiar with the Old Covenant (OC) in that they’ve heard the 10 commandments and maybe they’ve heard about some of the Sabbath and dietary laws. […]
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The short answer: no. I’ve spent some time talking about myself and about the Gospel I believe in, but now back to what I believe is required to correctly interpret the Bible: an historic Jewish cultural framework. It is the absence of such a framework that I believe is the source of most of the
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I have been a software engineer for 25 years working in the field of satellite and inertial navigation, and I’m a decent bowler–so none. I could say the Holy Spirit is speaking through me, which I believe, but any kook can say that. I am very well read in the Bible, which is good naturally,
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I believe Gen 3 contains the answer. There’s so much in this one chapter! The point is that death is actually a blessing. We were meant to live forever by continued access to the Tree of Life. But when they ate from the tree God had commanded them not to eat from, the Tree of
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I’ll explain this in more detail in subsequent posts, but it refers to when Jesus withered the fig tree in Mat 21:18-19 and Mark 11:20-21. At first glance it simply seems Jesus was in a bad mood and took it out on a poor fig tree! But with just a little Jewish cultural and historical
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