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Hermeneutics
- “Satan” in New Testament Aramaic
- A bit about intertextuality (Matt. 2:15)
- A Chiasm Noticed
- A Word Study on “Kingdom”
- Appositive in John 1:12
- Cuneiform and Midrashic stuff related to Micah 5:2
- Dispensationalism: What It Is And Why It Matters
- Faith, Believe, Fides, Credo, and Gelēfan
- Galilean Aramaic: Not as stupid as it sounds
- Greek for People Who Don’t Know Greek: James 2:21–24
- How James quoted Amos
- In 2 minutes, you will know 30% of NT word occurrences.
- Inspiration and Intertextuality in the Handwashing Controversy (Mark 7:6–13)
- Kingdom Postponement in the Talmud
- Knowing is half the battle
- Modification to Zane Hodges’ Identity of “The Antichrist”
- MosaicLawopoly
- Nuances in English translations of John 3:16
- Postponement Theology and Rabbinic Literature
- Rabbinic insight on Matt 5:17ff
- Read the Bible like an Architect Part I
- Read the Bible like an Architect Part II
- Repentance: More Than A Change of Mind
- Rick James, Eddie Murphy’s Couch, and the Kingdom Theology of Progressive Dispensationalism
- Satan: The Worst Dispensationalist Ever
- Some thoughts on the word, “Justify”
- Spiritualizers, Revisionists, and Ezekiel’s Temple
- The Biblical sustainability of the de jure interpretation of Col 1:13
- The Kingdom, a word study, and a story about King Darius running away from Ukrainians
- The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Leaven
- The Prophet of Deut. 18:15 (TL;DR; it’s Messiah)
- The Time I was in a Jewish Prison Gang
- The Timing of Ezekiel’s Temple (Ezek 43:1-27; 44:15-31)
- Thoughts on Russia, Ukraine, and the Bible
- What did Ruth really do with Boaz?
- What does the word, “baptize,” mean?
- What is an Inclusio?
- What is the Kingdom compared to in the parable of the leaven?
Apologetics
- Ancient Forerunners to Theistic Evolution: The Cosmological Compromise and Ramifications of רקיע in the LXX
- Augustine is wrong about the apocrypha
- Book Review: So The Next Generation Will Know
- Can you tell the difference between an atheist, a liberal, and an evangelical?
- Daniel’s Seventy Weeks Prophecy
- Did Allah tell Muhammad about embryos?
- Did Jesus teach hate?
- Does God condone raping and buying virgins?
- Does God condone raping and buying virgins? Part two.
- Ezra 10:6 in light of Nehemiah, Josephus, Elephantine, and 1 Esdras
- Four Examples of Colossians 4:2–6
- Four Objects Related to the 70-Year Chronology
- From Lower to Upper Apologetics: An Epistemology of Responsibility
- Guest Post on Rabbinical Judaism
- Mormonproof your worldview like a Berean
- No, Jesus did not call God, ‘Allah.’
- On alleged mathematical errors in the Bible
- Pascal’s Wager vs The Biblical Wager
- Putin’s Shared Nazi Roots With The Left Part I: The Emerging of Martin Heidegger
- Putin’s Shared Nazi Roots With The Left Part II: Reactions to Heidegger
- Reconsidering the Talmudic Definition of “Day”
- Response to “Luke’s Gay Apocalypse” Part I: Intro and Word Studies
- Response to “Luke’s Gay Apocalypse” Part II: Context
- Response to “Luke’s Gay Apocalypse” Part III: Yes, Non-Celibate Homosexuals Can Be Saved
- Rick Warren: Next to the Bible, [Purpose Driven Life is] the bestselling book [in English]
- Some concerns with Michael Heiser’s “The Unseen Realm”
- Soviet Encyclopedia on the Bible and Christ
- The Days of Peleg: Babel or Continental Drift?
- The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force
- The New Fascisms’ Attacks on Divine Institutions
- The time critics didn’t believe in Belshazzar
- Three Arguments not to Make in the Chronology Debate
- Three Problems in the 1611 KJV
- Tolstoy and Faith
- Trends in Ecotheology (Excerpt)
- We are spiritually dead before we sin.
- What was written above the cross?
Soteriology
- A Quadrant Model of Soteriological Compromises [Abridged]
- Abundant Eternal Possession
- Animal Sacrifice in the Bible
- Are “The Four Points” just another “Four Spiritual Laws?”
- Biblical Theology and the Free Grace Crisis
- Book Announcement! “Current Issues in Soteriology”
- Book Review: Zane Hodges Did Not Change His View on the Gospel
- BRT Podcast: What is the Gospel?
- Christian Pluralism
- Justification, Sanctification, Glorification, and Pinocchio
- Linguistic Problems with Lordship Salvation in James 2:14–26
- No, Jesus did not tell Nicodemus to repent to be born again
- On Reconciliation, Soteriology, and All that Jazz (2 Cor. 5:18–20)
- Pendulum of Grace
- Question your Savior, not your salvation
- Retranslating James 2:14–26
- Some quick thoughts on Limited Atonement
- The False Gospel of Woke Evangelicalism
- The Magic Elf Analogy
- The Need for a Refined Free Grace
- The Notitia, Assensus, Fiducia Argument
- The only test for salvation
- The Plot Thickens: Gleanings from the Arrest of John the Baptist
- Theologians Weigh In: Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
- Three reasons that James 5:19-20 does not teach that we can lose our salvation
- Tsar Ivan the Not-So-Much-More-Terrible-Than-The-Rest-Of-Us
- What about Miracle Stories?
- What does, “But the one who endures to the end will be saved” mean?
- Works do not save and neither does faith: Toward a better FG/LS Dialogue
- Works-Universalism: Contradiction or Middle Ground?
Christian Life
- A blind poet described the sea… what happened next will change how you share the Gospel
- A Tale of Two Houstons
- Book Review: Reproducing Grace
- Changing the Conversation about College
- Christian Life Hack: When Forgiveness Is Hard
- Church Enculturation: Doctrinal Matters and Alternatives
- Church Growth Patty Cake: An Allegory
- Explaining Titus 1:6 in the Most Redneck Way Possible
- Have You Broken the 10 Commandments?
- Hocus Pocus Today
- How panmillennialism robs Christians
- How to be a better witness
- Judge not?
- Kurdish Language and Missions
- Let’s talk about Santa
- Peace when you’ve been hurt
- Responding to Ageism from 1 Tim. 4:12–13
- Screwtape: On Wormwood’s Reassignment to ‘Murica
- Should We Call People, ‘Baby Killers?’
- The Danger Triangle of Doctrinal Drift
- The Good Place: A Mythology for Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
- Three “don’ts” for aspiring missionaries
- Three reasons why you do not want Jeremiah 29:11 to be about you
- What is Systematic Theology?
Various Tangents
- ‘Murica
- A tangent about typesetting
- At the Leopolitan Book Forum
- Book excerpt from “What is Dispensationalism?”
- Christmas Songs on Obscure Instruments
- Every Biblical Prophecy about ‘Murica
- Fireworks, Corruption, and Rallies
- Hamantaschen!
- Hanukkah, Jesus, and Potato Pancakes
- Harvard Yesterday and Today
- How to count to 31 on one hand
- How Translation Works
- How we got the term, “The Abominable Snowman”
- I bought a mystery liquid in Poland.
- John 3:16 tract for Wookies
- Joktan: The First Creole Speaker
- Mark Twain: I once robbed an aged and blind beggar-woman of four dollars
- Merry Christmas 2017 from the Mileses!
- Ministry Update: Et Libros has launched!
- New Book! Moving Forward
- Soviet Propaganda Art
- The (Often) One-Way Street of Ageism
- The poem that Grandpa carried in WWII
- Theological Survey: Was Bingo the Dog… or the Farmer?
- Think before you ink
- Three Conferences That We Recommend