The Parable of the Good Samaritan is found in Luke 10:25-37. There are two dialogues; the first is the context. The lawyer asks a question; Jesus asks His own. The lawyer answers and then Jesus does. The lawyer asks a follow-up question. Again, Jesus poses His own question in the context of a parable, to…
Tag: Judaism
The Gospel War
It’s time to reaffirm some clarifications. The essence of the gospel message is information warfare. The Great Commission is a call to inform. The big secret or mystery of Christ is that God was going to send His own Son — His Living Word — to become the Hebrew Messiah. And when He had fulfilled…
Dirty Details of Judaizing
I felt the need to stitch together some things addressed in this week’s community Bible lesson in Galatians 2. The Talmud has roots all the way back even before the Exile. However, during the Exile it began to take formal shape, since the common language of the Hebrew people shifted away from the classical Hebrew….
Stop at the Boundary
I’ve been asked about this. In Matthew 11, Jesus lowers the boom on Judaism. First, He condemns the kind of unbelief that led to so very few repenting at the preaching of His cousin, John the Baptist. He elevates John to his proper standing in God’s reckoning, because John clearly understood God’s heart and Word….