I see what you're saying Joseph and I think I have to surrender my original answer, (which, by the way, I only tendered as a possibility to consider, not as a positive answer) though i wouldn't go so far as to call it "ridiculous". I wondered about…
Another possibility—
This is something you'd have to ask Sam about for verification, but as I understand it the original Greek texts didn't have certain punctuations—my Apostolic Bible Polyglot, for instance doesn't have the comma after "you" in ve…
Absolutely, Ronnie. If an ancient Jew were alive today (physically, of course; the righteous ones are still alive spiritually) he'd think he were in Heaven. All this stuff, to speak lightly, we take for granted is what those Jews dreamed of and toil…
Yeah there was a definite ancient Hebrew mindset; problem is everybody thinks he knows what it is. We'll never perfectly see through the eyes and think with the mind of the Bible Hebrews, but we should try if we want to more thoroughly understand wh…
I agree with Mike too for various reasons. I don't have time to get into them all, but we can't fail to notice the biblical parallelism here: The Ground Curse=The Curse of the (Mosaic) Law; The Flood=The A.D. 70 Judgment. Just as the Law curse was p…
Full Preterist for Several years now. I was a premil then frustrated "panmil", believing the Eschatological passages of the Bible were impenetrable. I prayed to God for him to help provide me with the answers, and very shortly afterwards discovered Preterism ( it was a little more complicated than that, but this is the gist of it.)