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The Next Book I Am Going to Get…

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimonyis Richard Bauckham’s 2006 book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. I read chapter 9 and why Papias was right to say that the primary source of the Gospel according to Mark is the apostle Peter. It was really good and the arguments are very persuasive. Based upon that chapter alone, I really recommend this book to defend the historical reliability of the four Gospels (not necessarily inerrancy).


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James White on Calvinism

This is an amazing video that concludes a debate on Calvinism. Enjoy.


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Don’t Waste Your Pulpit

H/T: Justin Taylor


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James White on John 3:16-17

Here is an amazing treatment by James White on John 3:16-17Open Link in New Window: Common Attacks Against Reformed Theology II. This uses Real Audio so click here for the link to the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church page to download the software (it’s in the small print near the top of the page).


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Inconsistency with in Mormonism

Tomorrow I will again meet with some missionaries from the LDS church. This makes my fourth pair since I have relocated here to KC-MO. I have since done some more research into Mormonism and specifically the Book of Mormon (here on out referred to as BoM). I noticed a massive inconsistency with what I heard from last week’s missionaries and what I read in BoM. I will briefly summarize what the missionaries stated about Heavenly Father, Jesus, and Holy Ghost and compare it to the BoM.
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A Slap In The Face

Listen to John Piper’s T4G message and let the weight of his message slap you awake from the slumber the church has in this world. Oh man I feel terrible.

How The Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice.


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Son, Son, Or Servant and Mark 1:11 Part 3

This is the third post on Mark 1:11Open Link in New Window and its three sources of Genesis 22LXX; Psalm 2:7 LXX; and Isaiah 42:1 LXX. This post will conclude our examination of how Jesus is God’s Son (Genesis 22Open Link in New Window), Son (Psalm 2:7Open Link in New Window) and Servant (Isaiah 42:1Open Link in New Window). Let us get the scene of Mark 1:9-11Open Link in New Window in front of us from the NET,

9 Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River. 10 And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”

Again let us see the Greek text of Mark 1:11Open Link in New Window and Isaiah 42:1Open Link in New Window before us so that we can see the parallels.

Mark 1:11 — καὶ φωνὴ ἐγένετο ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός ἐν σοὶ εὐδόκησα
Isaiah 42:1 LXX — Ιακωβ ὁ παῖς μου ἀντιλήμψομαι αὐτοῦ Ισραηλ ὁ ἐκλεκτός μου προσεδέξατο αὐτὸν ἡ ψυχή μου ἔδωκα τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐπ αὐτόν κρίσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἐξοίσει
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Son, Son, Or Servant and Mark 1:11 Part 2

We come to the second possible source text of Mark 1:11Open Link in New Window 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 2:7Open Link in New Window and Mark 1:11Open Link in New Window. 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 2Open Link in New Window and then come back to the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
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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 1:11Open Link in New Window. There are three likely or probable sources behind this text: Genesis 22Open Link in New Window; Psalm 2:7Open Link in New Window; Isaiah 42:1Open Link in New Window. My purpose here is not to argue for or against any particular text as the background to Mark 1:11Open Link in New Window. 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 1:11Open Link in New Window 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 22Open Link in New Window. In the divine pronouncment, the Greek reads, σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός ἐν σοὶ εὐδόκησα. In Genesis 22:2, 12, 16Open Link in New Window 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 1:11Open Link in New Window 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 1:11Open Link in New Window. Rather I am going to assume that there is some idea of Genesis 22Open Link in New Window in the background and see how this text finds its fulfillment in Jesus.
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Doubting Thomas

This is an amazing sermon preached at FCC two Sundays ago. I love it. Enjoy and be richly blessed by it.


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