Bible index

Use this page to search for posts that deal at some length with particular Bible passages. New Testament books are listed first. Only books and chapters with linked content are listed. Selecting the book will update the chapters list.

Acts
17:30-31 Why traditional eschatology is a failure of nerve
17:31 When should we expect a day of the Lord?
19:1-6 Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) in narrative-historical perspective
20:28 Did God die on the cross? Part 1
22:6-16 The meteor sighting on the road to Damascus: why do we believe what we believe?
22:17-18 Do the disciples pray to the Lord Jesus in Acts?
26:12-18 The meteor sighting on the road to Damascus: why do we believe what we believe?
Romans
1:1-1:4 Born of a woman
1:1-5 Scot McKnight, Matthew Bates, and Greg Gilbert on the gospel
1:1-17 Paul’s letter to the Romans (1:1-18)
1:3 More on the supposed incarnational christology of Romans 1:3
1:3 Gospel allegiance: coming into being bodily
1:3 Are Ignatius and Irenaeus reliable interpreters of Romans 1:3?
1:3-4 Psalms of Solomon and Romans 1:1-17: The “Son of God” and the identity of Jesus
1:3-1:4 Was Jesus an adopted Son?
1:4 The appointment of the Son of God
1:4 The conceptual framework of Romans: salvation history or apocalyptic?
1:16-17 James Tabor’s failed failed apocalypse of the New Testament argument
1:16-17 Review of Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance. How does allegiance save?
1:16-17 “The Babylonian captivity figured out our spiritual bondage under sin and Satan”
1:17 What does Paul mean by “The righteous shall live by faith”?
1:18-20 The Greeks who knew the “unseen things” of God
1:18-32 Paul and Athens: the case against and for same-sex relationships
1:18-32 How we got from kingdom to Trinity: Constantine and pagan monotheism
1:18-1:32 Homosexuality, Black Friday, and the disordered human condition
1:18-32 Who is “the Greek” in Romans 1? An Israelite? Surely not. A response to Jason Staples
1:18-1:32 Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?
1:18-32 A different sort of missional theology from Paul’s address to the “men of Athens” in Acts 17
1:19-21 Paul and Philo (within Judaism) within paganism
1:19-23 What did Paul mean by the groaning of creation? Does the argument work today?