Our Lord Jesus Christ began to instruct his disciples at the very end of the previous age, when he came to fulfill all the OT prophesied about him.

Ga 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past (before he sent his Son) unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by...

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We know that the Devil has much power
Cor states he is the "god of this world"

We know he loves to hit us at our weak point
So:
does the Devil have the power to read our mind?

Matthew 10:6
but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24
But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

The widely held view is that Jesus was sent initially to Jews, and subsequently, after His death on the cross, to all mankind. But if He was going to lay down His life as a ransom for all, then He was actually sent to Gentiles as well as Jews.

So let us consider these verses. First Matthew 10:6 describes where at that...

There are generally three differing views of inerrancy. There may be some variations along the way by some but which view do you hold to more closely and why scriptural foundation do you have for holding to your view.

Absolute Inerrancy - "holds that the Bible, which includes rather detailed treatment of matter both scientific and historical, is fully true. The impression is conveyed that the biblical writers intended to give a considerable number of exact scientific and historical data....

The Atonement is a multifaceted event. I have said that there are penal aspects (we escape the wrath to come, we have been freed from the bondage of sin and death - death being the wage of sin) and there are substitutionary aspects (Christ died for our sins, His flesh for ours, His life for ours, we are purchased by His blood).

But I do not mean penal and substitution in the form of Penal Substitution Theory. I mean it in the aspect held by Christianity for over two millennia.

In terms...

On Nother thread, I asked @JonC some questions about his Penal Substitution Theory.
I asked:

What I would like to know from you is
1. In what way is the Lord Jesus the propitiation for the sins of the world?
2. In what sense did He die for our sins and what did His death achieved. i
3. In what sense did God lay our iniquity upon Him?
4. What does it mean that He became a curse for us? Who cursed Him?
5. How exactly has He borne our sins
6. Precisely how do we escape the coming wrath...

On another thread:

Because, the Bible says that this text is inspired. The men of God made only one change to the text of the Bible. They corrected "he" on "she" in Ruth 2:18. All other corrections in the Bible were made by other men.

Chapter and verse, please

This phrase appears about 42 times in the New Testament, preeminently as describing Jesus. The meaning is Jesus is God's Son. Now the word translated as "son" usually refers to a biological offspring, thus a "son" would be thought of as being fathered or created by another. However, we know that Logos, the Second Person of the Trinity, was termed "Son" as being forever and ever, thus eternal, thus never created.

Some, in my opinion mistakenly, think Logos became a "son" when Logos became...

Back in 2020 I posted a thread with reviews of books about translation that I thought might be used for textbooks. Here it is: Textbooks on Translating

Without going over that territory anew, I thought I'd do a thread on books about translation, Bible translation in particular. Feel free to post about your favorite (or otherwise) books on translation.

I'll start out by listing the books by the famous Eugene Nida that I have. The book that is the most interesting to me is his autobiography...