Archive for April, 2008
Star Wars: TFU
Here is an amazing video that goes through The Force Unleashed on PSP PS2 Wii and DS
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Sophistry
Steve Gregg’s use of Scripture in these exchanges is sophistry, plain and simple.
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Son, Son, Or Servant and Mark 1:11 Part 2
We come to the second possible source text of Mark 1:11
and looking at how Jesus fills the image of that source, or why that text is applied to Jesus in this pronouncement. Let us get Mark 1:11 NET and also the Greek before us,
And a voice came from heaven: “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”–NET
καὶ φωνὴ ἐγένετο ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός ἐν σοὶ εὐδόκησα–Zhubert.com/
The second text is Psalm 2:7 LXX which reads, διαγγέλλων τὸ πρόσταγμα κυρίου κύριος εἶπεν πρός με υἱός μου εἶ σύ ἐγὼ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε. (Psalm 2:7 NETS (New English Translation Septuagint; see pg. 7) translates this passage as, “By proclaiming the Lord’s ordinance: The Lord said to me, ‘My son you are; today I have begotten you.’”). It is easy to see the parallel between Psalm 2:7 and Mark 1:11. Yahweh tells the king–most likely David–that he is Yahweh’s son and that day Yahweh became his father. In Mark, the voice from heaven declares Jesus to be his beloved Son. Thus I want us to see how Jesus is the Son that Yahweh pronounces the Davidic king to be. To do so, we must look at Psalm 2 and then come back to the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
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Behind the Scenes of the Incredible Hulk
Here is a link to a short video about the upcoming movie, The Incredible Hulk. It is very interesting and I think I might like the take on the Hulk this movie has. It kind of feels at home with where Bruce Banner would be in the Marvel Universe if he were to break out of his current circumstances, namely he is in prison for World War Hulk and would thus be a fugitive.
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To Capitalize or not to capitalize
B3 (Better Bibles Blog) has been discussing whether or not Holy Spirit should be capitalized every time if appears, like Psalm 51 for instance. Here is an excellent discussion of the words “holy”(ἅγιον) and “spirit” (πνεῦμα) in Greek. I encourage you to read through all of the posts on the holy spirit, they are worth the read. These posts are very technical so be warned.
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Him That Pisseth on Calvinism
Here is the “him that pisseth against the wall” preacher again, this time trying to refute the reformed doctrines of grace.
A couple of points on this video. He references John 6:70 to disprove election being unto final salvation (cf. Ephesians 1:4-6). The pastor does not check the context of the statement. Up in John 6:64-65 we see, “‘But there are some of you who do not believe.’ (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65 And he said, ‘This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.’” John 6:65 is the explanation as to why those who were with Jesus after the miracle of the feeding of the 5000 were only there for the food that Christ could make and not for Jesus himself. But John 6:64 tells us that John 6:65 also explains why the one who would betray Jesus would do so, God did not grant to Judas to follow after Christ. Thus Jesus could say in John 6:70, “Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”
This preacher also states that God did not want Judas to betray Jesus but to follow him. However, look at John 17:12, “While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.” Judas was lost so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. It was God’s plan that this happen. Or consider also Acts 2:23, “this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.” Jesus was delivered over by the Jews to Pilate and crucified “according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God.” Hear also the prayer of that same church in Acts 4:27-28, “In this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.” Again what happened to Jesus–including his betrayal by Judas–was done according to “whatever your [Yahweh's] hand and your plan had predestined to take place.” God determined that Judas would betray Jesus. He revealed it in Scripture. The early church in Acts 4 saw that as part of the fulfillment of Psalm 2:1-2 (cf. Acts 4:25-26).
If you don’t want to hold to the Reformed doctrines of grace and Reformed soteriology, that is fine and I pray for you to see the truth of the Scriptures. But please when you try to refute the theology, do your homework better. Read the context of the passages that you site. The Gospel of John is the most “Reformed” book in all of the New Testament. I will give him this, at least he was trying to speak to doctrine in this video instead of the KJV being the only Word of God.
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Son, Son, or Servant and Mark 1:11 Part 1
I want to spend my next few posts examining the divine utterance or pronouncement at Jesus’ baptism in Mark 1:11. There are three likely or probable sources behind this text: Genesis 22; Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 42:1. My purpose here is not to argue for or against any particular text as the background to Mark 1:11. Rather I just want to show how each text is a candidate and how each text finds its fulfillment in Jesus, how Jesus is the substance to the shadow that these texts form. Mark 1:11 reads,
And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
The order that I will take the three probable candidate texts are from least likely to most likely. The first background text is Genesis 22. In the divine pronouncment, the Greek reads, σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός ἐν σοὶ εὐδόκησα. In Genesis 22:2, 12, 16 we see the following: τὸν υἱόν σου τὸν ἀγαπητόν (Gen. 22:2 LXX), τοῦ υἱοῦ σου τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ (Genesis 22:12 LXX), τοῦ υἱοῦ σου τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ (Gen. 22:16 LXX). There is an obvious grammatical link between Mark 1:11 and Genesis 22 LXX. As I said, my purpose here is not to argue for or against these three texts being the background to Mark 1:11. Rather I am going to assume that there is some idea of Genesis 22 in the background and see how this text finds its fulfillment in Jesus.
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Morning Workout: Dr. Meredith Kline
Every morning I like to listen to either a sermon (but not on Christian radio–ugh!) (usually D.A. Carson) or an audio book–Christian theology or any kind of good fiction (e.g. Star Wars: Legacy of the Force; Vince Flynn novels; Jonathan Edwards). Here are some lectures that I am looking forward to listening to this summer.
H/T: Justin Taylor
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My Hermeneutical Score
I finally found the hermeneutical quiz that Scot McKnight posted for LeadershipJournal.net. It was a fun quiz. It scored a 48 which is a hermeneutical conservative–but on the moderate side of the scale as I am only 5 points from being a hermeneutical moderate. Here is how the quiz defines a conservative:
First, the conservative hermeneutic group scores 52 or lower. The strength of this view is its emphasis on the authority, ongoing and normative authority, of all of Scripture. It tends to operate with the line many of us learned in Sunday school: “If the Bible says it, that settles it.” Such persons let the Bible challenge them with full force. Literal readings lead to rather literal applications. Most of the time.
H/T: Tyler F. Williams
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