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.

Philippians
3:5 Paul’s former life in “Judaism”—whatever that was
3:8-11 How does Paul fill up what is lacking of Christ’s sufferings?
3:9-10 The shortfall in Christ’s sufferings: mystical union, messianic woes, the hardships of evangelism, or none of the above?
3:10-3:11 Who is being transformed into the image of Christ? Not me
3:20-21 Is there a divine-identity christology in Philippians 3:20-21?
Colossians
1:13 The conceptual framework of Romans: salvation history or apocalyptic?
1:13-14 Kingdom texts that don’t fit the paradigm?
1:13-20 Is there such a thing as the “Cosmic Christ”?
1:15-17 There are two Trinities in the New Testament and they are not the immanent and economic Trinities
1:15-20 Against Wright and Bird: among other things, why the wolf dwelling with the lamb is not new creation
1:15-20 In him dwells all the fullness of what is divine bodily. What’s that all about?
1:19 In him dwells all the fullness of what is divine bodily. What’s that all about?
1:19 The reconciliation of “all things” by the blood of his cross
1:20 J. Richard Middleton on salvation and the restoration of all things
1:24 How Paul made up what was lacking in Christ’s afflictions
1:24 What is lacking of the sufferings of Christ in my flesh
1:24 The shortfall in Christ’s sufferings: mystical union, messianic woes, the hardships of evangelism, or none of the above?
1:24 How does Paul fill up what is lacking of Christ’s sufferings?
2:9 In him dwells all the fullness of what is divine bodily. What’s that all about?
2:13-15 Forgiveness and the wiped out document nailed to the cross
2:13-15 Review of Steve Chalke’s The Lost Message of Paul, part 3: atonement, hell and universalism
3:9-10 The image of God and the image of Christ: less is more
3:11 Some notes on race and unity in narrative-historical perspective
1 Thessalonians
1:9-10 Apocalyptic realism and deliverance from the coming wrath
1:9-10 Will Jesus save us from the wrath to come?
4:15 Why you won't go to heaven when you die
4:15-17 The form of this order of things is passing away: who is wrong—Paul or Matthew Thiessen?
4:15-17 The ‘rapture’ in its literary and historical setting
4:16 The resurrection of the just and the unjust in Daniel 12:2, and the horizons of New Testament eschatology
4:16 What about the resurrection of the martyrs? When was that supposed to have happened?