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XXII-Romans: Mercy vs. Harden -tmp(Rom 9:16-18)

Written by Rey
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
We’re considering God’s righteousness and seeing how it works with mercy specifically in the case of the Jews. Thus far Paul impressed on us his sorrow that the Jews are not presently believers of the revealed Christ. Paul has been showing us how important a people they truly are and has taken us through history showing how and why God’s Word of Promise was established. We saw how they were kept from Edom’s fate only by God’s mercy. Let's look at this mercy. Read More Add Comment (0)

XXI. Romans: Why God's Word Stands -tmp(Rom 9:10-15)

Written by Rey
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
These next few verses wind up being breeding ground for lots of contention. Some have inappropriately used these verses to show that Jacob was “saved” and Esau “damned to hell”. It seems to me that this ignores Paul’s argument at this stage of his defense of the righteousness of God: that being, God’s Word stands and now, why it stands. Read More Add Comment (5)

XX. Romans: God's Word Stands -tmp(Rom 9:3-9)

Written by Rey
Monday, 22 January 2007
The question “what about the Jew” is frighteningly important in it’s historic context. Paul immediately impresses upon the reader how important his kinsmen according to the flesh are since it directly impacts God’s good word. Read More Add Comment (2)

XIX. Romans: The Problem of the Jews -tmp(Rom 9:1-2)

Written by Rey
Sunday, 21 January 2007
Let me start an investigation of the third movement of Paul’s defense by directing attention to Brother Russ’ series on Calvanism. There are many discussions that may arise based on very old arguments that I don’t want to spend (too much) time discussing. Not that the discussions shouldn’t be—but rather it detracts from my purpose of going through the book of Romans. Calvinists and Arminians would both agree that their respective stance is a systematic doctrine. These camps do not establish their doctrine solely on the grounds of these three chapters of the Bible so I will not limit my overview of these chapters to those doctrines either. (Here's a link to the rest of the study.) Read More Add Comment (4)

Romans 9 Note

Written by Rey
Thursday, 18 January 2007
Going to be republishing some posts on Romans 9 so I can finish off the section I said I would finish off like 2 years ago. Add Comment (0)

Been Around the Blogs: Yeah Yeah Yeah

Written by Rey
Friday, 12 January 2007
Best of the Biblical Studies Carnival as well as 2007's first Biblical Studies Carnival which includes my post on Genesis 6—which surprised me since I don't think I submitted there but still leaves me exceedingly grateful. Jeremy has the Christian Carnival up at his site so go check it out. I posted some weird existential thing that is percolating into a real post in my own head when I'm not thinking about work (or a second job). The post was sparked by a discussion over at a small faith. A useless-but-cute link of a cat licking your monitor with due props given to The Write Jerry Doug talks about stirring up the coffee pot for links and a discussion ensues. He links to the Pyromaniacs which currently has a series of posts and counter-comments plus a warning from their head fire starter. Here's a series on expository sermons (which I have thus far only skimmed). Haddon Robinson has a good book called Biblical Preaching which I plan to put a review up in the future. Lingamish exposes some stuff with Technorati in a pretty funny yet interesting post. Also, I am not sure if I announced this or not, but if not here it is. Add Comment (0)