|
b6f18ad
|
The call to faith and the act of salvation comes entirely from God; faith commitment is both active and passive. Our part is the surrender of the will, the open acceptance of what God has done. It is not a "work" (Eph 2:9), for it is the power of God alone that makes it possible." --
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
8b7083e
|
Jesus said, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them" (Mt 5:17). Yet Paul could say, "Christ is the end of the law" (Rom 10:4); "you also died to the law through the body of Christ" (Rom 7:4); and "Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law" (Gal 3:25). Hebrews states, "By calling this covenant 'new,' he has made the first one obsol..
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
7fb40e0
|
We produce nothing but our act of faith.
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
982731f
|
They have been fulfilled in Christ, so we must determine their theological purposes and apply them to current situations. We need holiness and a proper relationship with God just as they did, and the legal regulations properly understood can help us center on those critical areas of the Christian life.
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
2d2f204
|
Our task is to decipher the meaning of the historical-theological text in biblical narrative, not to reconstruct the original event.
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
a7fe9fe
|
Imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms (Ps 12; 35; 52; 57--59; 69; 70; 83; 109; 137; 140) are usually lament psalms where the writer's bitterness and desire for vindication are especially predominant. This leads to such statements as Psalm 137:8- 9, "[Happy is] he who seizes your infants / and dashes them against the rocks." Such statements are shocking to modern sensitivities and cause many to wonder at the ethical standards of the biblica..
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
e60e14d
|
God created the world in the way that he saw fit, and humans should not question the divinely appointed order. All wisdom literature, not just Job, develops this theme (e.g., Is 40:28- 29). Human beings must take their proper place in the cosmos, find their appointed life and make the most of it.
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
fe2f978
|
God's justice transcends human frailty, and our duty is to await his answers. Rather than assume the right to determine the laws of God's created order (Crenshaw calls this "Titanism"), we must humbly submit to God's greater wisdom."
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
a0bdd7f
|
what if we spent as much time and money on Bible study as we do our hobbies?
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
da8390a
|
The right hand in Scripture symbolizes power and authority
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
ecf12f8
|
Indeed, the Bible has been cast adrift from its moorings and left to float on a sea of modern relativity. The "play" of meanings in the stories is seen to be open-ended, and modern readers must construct their own interpretation. Rhoads and Michie thus call Mark "a literary creation with an autonomous integrity" existing independently from any resemblance to the actual person and life of Jesus. It is a "closed and self-sufficient world," an..
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
edcb038
|
In AD 57 in the city of Corinth, the Apostle Paul wrote the greatest book ever penned in human history: his letter to the Roman church.
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |
|
e72b69c
|
The deep meaning of any text is a buried treasure; all the riches are waiting under the surface. If we learned there was gold deep under our backyard, nothing would stop us from getting the tools we needed to dig it out. Similarly, in serious Bible study all the treasures and riches of God are waiting to be dug up for our benefit.
|
|
|
Grant R. Osborne |