“Reading through the Old Testament, there are numerous places where the modern reader walks away puzzled…. One such example is something that shows up repeatedly throughout the first few books of the Bible: cities of refuge. How exactly do these cities work? Why did God set them up? And why did ancient Israel solve the problem of murder this way?” - P&D
The 19th Annual Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics will be held at The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry headquarters in Westville, N.J., on Wednesday and Thursday, September 16 and 17.
It will be the first time that this conference will not be hosted by an educational institution. Instead, visitors will be able to see FOIGM’s newly expanded facilities, including its state-of-the-art recording studio.
This is a conference that I had long desired to join, but was never able to attend until 2024. This will now be the third straight year in which I will have had the privilege of presenting a paper of my own.
Jeremiah uses Creation as evidence for the Creator’s power and sovereignty in 4 passages. Because 2 of them are quite similar, I’ll discuss them together.
“Debates over biblical language tend to come back around because the underlying question isn’t really about Greek roots. It’s about whether the Bible’s teaching on sexuality can be reinterpreted to fit modern assumptions. Huff pushed back on that framing directly” - C.Leaders
“Both in theology and in practice, we’ll get ourselves into trouble by picking between two equally true ideas. We make enemies of what should be friends…. Take the classic matter of how divine and human agency relate” - TGC
“The strength of Sloan’s argument comes with a necessary caveat…. he goes on to argue that Jesus, as Lord of the law, reestablishes the law and restores God’s people to a form of law observance. And this brings us to a few serious criticisms of Sloan’s work.” - 9 Marks
Many Christians believe the people of Israel are important to the Bible’s story. But not all of them know why, other than to correctly declare “Israel is special” or “they’re God’s chosen people.” These are incomplete answers.
“Nowhere in Scripture do we see sentimental wishful thinking. What we see is mankind’s devastating separation from God; the death of countless sacrificial lambs; the hard, agonizing work of Christ’s redemption; the tangible nature of His resurrection; and the promise of coming judgment. At last we see the restoration of God’s ideal universe, fulfilling His plan of the ages, culminating in a resurrected people living with Him on a resurrected Earth.
“The text of the Genesis Flood categorically underscores what God did to ‘preserve’ life in spite of the disaster. Dustin even quotes another scholar who calls this a ‘flood of grace.’”
“Out of 255 verses referencing emotion, one fifth (20%) are verses where Jesus teaches someone about how they ought to feel. Half of those references are about fear and/or anxiety.” - Don Johnson
