Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
How should we understand λαμβάνω in John 5:34?
ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ παρὰ ἀνθρώπου τὴν μαρτυρίαν λαμβάνω, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα λέγω ἵνα ὑμεῖς σωθῆτε. (John 5:34, NA27)
While many more literal translations translate λαμβάνω as receive or accept:
Not that the…
In an article on the Authorship of the Petrine epistles in Wikipedia a comment is made:
The great majority of scholars agree that Peter has not written this
letter. For example, textual critic Daniel Wallace (who maintains
that Peter was …
How could Miriam speak to, let alone get close to the Princess in Exodus 2:7?
Ex 2:7 – Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and
call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
See list of lectionaries on Wikipedia and compare list of NT uncials.
Why, for example, isn’t Codex Bezae (05) categorized as a lectionary since it’s restricted to the Gospels and Acts, or Codex Laudianus (08) with just Acts?
Do the lectio…
Early Christians linked the sacrifice of the Eucharist with the sacrifice described in Malachi 1. In the King James Version, this passage relevant reads
10 … I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an o…
We are initial told that when God created humankind he made him in his image and likeness.
Genesis 1:26 ESV
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over th…
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
[2 Samuel 12:13 KJV]
How, and when, did the Lord ‘put away’ David’s sin?
Ephesians 3:15: ἐξ οὗ πᾶσα πατριὰ ἐν οὐρανοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς ὀνομάζεται (NA 28)
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named (ESV)
The ESV adds this footnote to the word family: Or from whom all fatherhood; the Greek word patria i…
How does the Noah’s Ark narrative relate to other the Gilgamesh flood account?
For reference, the Biblical flood account is in Genesis 6-10 and the Gilgamesh flood account is on Tablet XI. The British Museum holds a tablet with the Atrah…
Aren’t you curious? About what makes people tick? About where all the dinosaurs went? About what life would be like growing up in rural Mongolia? About what the fall of this year is going to bring us? We were all taught that “curiosity killed the cat,”…
According to Numbers 1:20-46 (NJPS):
They totaled as follows:
The descendants of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, the registration of the clans of their ancestral house, as listed by name, head by head, all males aged twenty years and ov…
Be real with people, or be prepared to lose them. It’s hard. As Pastor Rick Warren wrote once, we all fight against three particular fears: the fear that we will be exposed for who we truly are the fear that we will be rejected the fear that we w…