John 8 and the Tyranny of Language John 8:52-56  Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and…

The Hermeneutical Death Spiral I have a problem: I’m a Christian. As a Christian, I am constantly being compelled to silence by those who are religiously attached to a world…

Mark 2 and Matthew 9: Bride Chambers, New Cloth, and Jesus Have you ever wondered why we find so many speeches by Jesus in the gospels in which He groups…

Continued from previous page… Symbolism, God, Man and Morality The complaint might come to mind of an inevitable blurring of all these cross-disciplinary studies related to symbolism as I suggest,…

Sacrifice for Sin and the Real Messianic Secret This is an article in a series. Please see: Christ on the Cross Part 1: How can a person die in sacrifice…

The novelist Thomas Pynchon said, "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” Not that the question "what is the word of God?"…

Sacred Symbology: Our Comfort Here is Our Downfall Before getting to something about the interaction of the symbolic types, it is probably best to start with this thing I call…

The question I ask now and always ask about all the many other of Jesus's problems with the Pharisees we read about: are we really supposed to believe that this…

Book of John: The Prophetic Speech of Jesus from the OT   J. Barton Payne’s Dictionary of Biblica Prophecy is considered the standard on the subject, but I think we…

 Prophetic Theory and the Necessity of Messianic Prophecy “Prophecy as Fact” is meant in two senses: Messianic prophecy is self-attesting, and therefore God’s method of self-attestation, used to show himself,…

What is Prophesying? This article is a casual rundown of the meaning of prophesying and then preaching in the NT. One of my functions is not only to show the…

 New Testament quotations of the Old Testament J. Barton Payne’s Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy seems to be the standard for this subject. There is also Old Testament Quotations in the…