This page provides access to posts that discuss Bible passages at some length. Very few are from the Old Testament.

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Isaiah 42:1 The Holy Spirit 3: This is my beloved Son
Isaiah 59:20-21 Will all Israel be saved? Hurtado and Wright

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Kenton Sparks: historical criticism and the virgin birth I find this strange. Kenton Sparks (God’s Word in Human Words) is happy to accept the possibility that not all the miracle stories in the Bible actually happened. He also thinks it quite likely that some of the miraculous events related...
Scot McKnight on the historical Jesus and the Jesus of the church Scot McKnight argues that historical Jesus studies must start from the premise that the “church either got Jesus wrong or said too much”, that the “real” Jesus of the historians and the theologized Jesus of the church cannot be reconciled...
The destruction of body and soul in gehenna This verse comes in the context of Jesus’ instructions to the twelve before sending them out to proclaim the imminence of the reign of God (10:7). In particular it presupposes the warning that they will face persecution from the Jews as...