Showing posts with label Hebrews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hebrews. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Missing the Point in Hebrews 2—for many years

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I don't know how many times I’ve read the first two chapters of Hebrews, but recently I saw something that I somehow missed for yea...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Avoiding death

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These lines from an old Christmas song came to mind while thinking about Hebrews 2: Mild he lays his glory by Born that man no...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Drifting away

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The lovely Carol gave me a present yesterday morning -- a copy of NurtureShock , where I read about an experiment with " gratitude j...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Now that’s good news!

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I've been reading Hebrews chapter 2, which opens with this rhetorical device: We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to wh...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

About those quotations ...

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Earlier I asked how the author of Hebrews knew that certain Old Testament passages referred to Christ . Some of the passages pretty much...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

To which of the angels did God ever say...?

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The theme of Hebrews 1 seems to be that Jesus is greater than the angels, and here the author gives his main argument. It's a pret...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Became superior to the angels?

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So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs. (Hebrews 1:4, emphasis added) What ...
Saturday, January 09, 2010

Heir, creator, radiance, image, sustainer, priest, regent

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I mentioned earlier that the author of Hebrews loves to talk, or write, about how great Jesus is. The author's theme in chapter 1 is...
Sunday, January 03, 2010

Jesus: Not Just Another Prophet

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I've been wondering about my Bible reading plan for 2010, and thought I'd try doing Hebrews, as I did some years ago. Why Heb...