Donald Trump, Ukraine, and Impeachment: Should We Reject Chemotherapy?
If there is one thing everyone should realize about the Trump presidency, it is this: There never is any down time. Everything is at fever pitch, all the time, ...
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The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament [Part 8 in the Series]: John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus–All About a New Exodus and New Creation (and then there’s more!)
We now come to Part 8 in my series on how the New Testament writers use the Old Testament. In my last post, I looked at the opening verses of the Gospel of Mark...
The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament [Part 7 in the Series]: The Opening of Mark–The Messenger and the Voice in the Wilderness
Here in my next post in my series on the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament, I’m going to focus on the prologue of Mark, particularly his account of John ...
The New Testament Use of the Old Testament [Part 6 in the Series]: Matthew 2:23’s claim that “He will be called a Nazarene” was spoken by the prophets…although it wasn’t, but it sort of was!
We now come to the final example of the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament that is found in Matthew’s infancy narrative. Up to this point, we’ve looked at...
The New Testament Use of the Old Testament [Part 5 in the Series]: Matthew’s Use of Hosea 11:1 (“Out of Egypt I Called My Son”) and Jeremiah 31:15 (“Rachel Weeping for Her Children”)
As we make our way into Part 5 of my ongoing series on how the New Testament uses the Old Testament, we now come to a couple of Old Testament quotations in the ...
Ken Ham, Conservative Christian Crusader vs. Progressive Christian Secularists! (…and why I don’t really like either side)
Last month, a friend of mine brought to my attention an October 17th blog post by Ken Ham in which he commented on an article by Religion News Service about new...
The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament [Part 4 in the Series]: Matthew’s use of Micah 5:2, and the Ruler being born in Bethlehem
It has been over a month since my last post in my series regarding the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament. At that time, I looked at the Suffering Servant...
Historically-Speaking: Pondering the Problems Surrounding Matthew and Luke’s Infancy Narratives, and the Date of Jesus’ Birth
A few weeks ago, I got into a somewhat heated discussion on Twitter over the issue of the dating of the birth of Jesus. In all honesty, although I knew about th...
The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament [Part 3 in the Series]: Isaiah 53: How the Suffering Servant is Israel…and Christ
In my previous post, I began to argue that the Suffering Servant in of Isaiah 53, when read within the context of the larger section of Isaiah 40-55, is clearly...
The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament [Part 2 in the Series]: Isaiah 53 and the Suffering Servant (Part 1 on Isaiah 53)
Perhaps one of the most well-known, and I would argue most misunderstood, Old Testament prophecy quoted in the gospels is Isaiah 53, or more properly Isaiah 52:...