This book is NT Wright’s narrative theology applied to the doctrine of the atonement. It is comparable to John Stotts, Cross of Christ in some respects with the key difference that Wright favours the Christus [ Read More … ]
Christians in some church circles are pressured by their teachers to self-identify as ‘sinners’. This practice ought to make us ask questions about the identity of Christians. This is a topic which touches upon biblical [ Read More … ]
‘Soter’ is the root Greek noun for salvation. ‘Christos’ is the root Greek noun for Christ. God’s people are called ‘Christians’ because they proclaim Christ. ‘Soterians’ is an expression coined by Scot McKnight in his [ Read More … ]
This post is part of a brief series which gives a brief overview of the images used to describe salvation. In this post we consider the image of the Sacrificial System. Sacrifices involved the manipulation [ Read More … ]
This post is part of a brief series which gives a brief overview of the images used to describe salvation. In this post we consider the image of the Law Court. The biblical picture of [ Read More … ]
This post is part of a brief series which gives a brief overview of the images of salvation. In this post we consider the image of the Slave Market. Normally we think of property as [ Read More … ]
I’ve read and written a review of Sanders’, Paul and Palestinian Judaism (PPJ) and Barclays, Paul and the Gift (PG). Barclay has some critical statements against Sanders portrayal of grace in Second Temple Judaism. I’m [ Read More … ]
The NIV renders Romans 4.3 3 What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was CREDITED to him as righteousness.” (Rom 4.3 NIV See also NASB95, LEB) The ESV renders Romans 4.3 For what [ Read More … ]
The following post is intended to highlight Paul’s usage of the Greek conjunction ‘γάρ’ commonly translated as ‘for’ in Romans 1. The Greek word ‘γάρ’ has transliteration ‘gar’ and it can be rendered as ‘because’, [ Read More … ]
The Scriptures give a reasonable amount of information describing what Jesus’ death on the cross has achieved. The following is a list of many of them. I got this from a little Birdy (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/2015/03/why-did-jesus-die-on-the-cross/). Ransom [ Read More … ]