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.

Galatians
4:4-5 The fullness of time: why did Jesus come when he did?
4:4 Gospel allegiance: coming into being bodily
4:4 Christmas according to St Paul
4:4 New CBQ article: the fullness of time and the present evil age
4:14 Does Paul think of Jesus as an “angel of God”?
6:10 Love your neighbour and other knee-jerk reactions
Ephesians
1:3-14 Chosen before the foundation of the world
1:3-23 Why we need to let some theological air out of the over-inflated balloon of atonement theory
1:7 More on the narrative logic of salvation: “we have redemption through his blood”
1:9-10 J. Richard Middleton on salvation and the restoration of all things
1:20-23 How powerful is Jesus?
2:11-22 How and why gentiles were saved by the blood of Jesus according to Paul
4:8-10 What was the point of APEST in its original context?
4:11 What was the point of APEST in its original context?
5:21 Homosexuality, marriage, and why I don’t think Paul teaches mutual submission
5:21 The breasts of Jesus and some other suspect egalitarian arguments
5:21 Craig Keener and the fallacy of mutual submission
5:22-24 Polysemy, pre-eminence, and patriarchy in Paul
5:22-5:33 Celibacy, marriage, and the end of the age
Philippians
1:23 Why you won't go to heaven when you die
2:5-11 A hymn of praise to the anti-Caesar
2:6 In the form of a god: what does the lack of an article tell us?
2:6-7 In the likeness of sinful flesh
2:6 Origen on the form of God
2:6-11 The downs and ups of Philippians 2:6-11
2:6-2:11 The Christ-encomium of Philippians 2:6-11 and “Christian” formation
2:6 Can morphē theou signify the nature, being, or essence of God?
2:6 My reading of the Philippians encomium visualised
2:6-7 In the form of a god: Jesus and Dionysus
2:6 Did Jesus not seize at divine honours (Philippians 2:6)?