Subsequent revelation often makes explicit what was only implicit in antecedent revelation.
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Review of Rooker’s The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Mark F. Rooker (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2010,...
Canonical structure of the New Testament
Canonical structure of the English Bible Canonical Structure of the OT – 2 (the Hebrew Bible) Canonical structure of...
Canonical Structure of the OT – 2 (the Hebrew Bible)
The end of the Bible is the end or goal of the beginning to which Adam failed to attain.
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Two (III)
Wells interacts with Exod. 20:8 in less than one page. He offers what in my mind gives the appearance of a cavalier dismissal of this text with these words: “This text, of course, contains the command to keep a Sabbath. It clearly addresses only Israelites and others who live within their land, so it does not seem to be relevant under the New Covenant” (29). He then adds, “Despite that fact many find an argument in the word “remember”” (29; emphasis mine). He assumes that an assertion is a fact. Something seems wrong-headed about that.
Canonical Structure of the OT – 1
Canonical structure refers to the final form of our English Bibles primarily – both order and content. This...
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Two (II)
In my last post, I said, “In my next post I will interact with Wells, where he says, “[w]hen we look at...
Canonical Structure and Hermeneutics: Intro.
Canonical structure can help us with interpreting the Bible. The shape in which the Bible comes to us appears to have...
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Two
Chapter two is entitled “The OT Witness.” Wells first discusses the argument from creation (i.e., Gen....
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Foreword and Chapter 1
On Friday, November 19, 2010, I received a free copy of Tom Wells’ newest book, The Christian and the Sabbath. Thanks,...