Foster's Theological Reflections

I believe that the ante-Nicene Fathers (as well as the post-Nicenes) generally accepted the historical validity of the Noachian Flood: ...

"Having come in the flesh" represents a fairly literal rendering of the perfect participle in 1 John 4:2. I notice that J.B. Rot...

The Documentary Hypothesis teaches that the Pentateuch arose from four distinct sources known as JEDP (the Jahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomic, a...

1) While it may be tempting to deny that birthdays are rooted in superstition, magic and pagan religious customs--almost everything I read b...

We might be inclined to believe that the Fourth Gospel primarily supplied the contextual literary background for Justin Martyr's Logos n...

One reader of this blog has made some remarks on Galatians 4:8ff regarding the applicability of those verses today. Granted, Paul was origin...

This blog is intended to be a safe place for my fellow brothers/sisters. I like taking a scholarly approach to biblical studies, so I'm ...

I must admit that a reference to the Lord's supper in 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 is a possibility (cf. 1 Cor. 11:23ff). However, my analysis o...

"You crushed the heads of Leviathan, gave him as food to the sharks" (Psalm 74:14 NAB). I have long been familiar with Hermann G...

"Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength; Thou didst...

Michael Coogan (The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures) makes another claim about the opening ve...

Scholar Michael Coogan insists that the rendering "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" is grammatically incorr...

Moulton and Milligan express their view of ONOMA (Philippians 2) when writing: "By a usage similar to that of the Heb. SHEM, ONOMA co...

The difference between Acts 20:28 and other passages that speak of Christians being redeemed or purchased seems quite striking. While some s...

Has science solved the problem of why something exists rather than nothing? 1) Gottfried Leibniz famously asked why is there something rat...

Lately, I've been asking myself why I'm so resistant to seeing temple theology in John 1:14. The claimed allusion is a viable possib...

Here is a little more information about 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and what it potentially teaches us about life in the heavens for all eternity. ...

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