Foster's Theological Reflections

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1. Agnosticism (English)- "In 1869, English biologist T.H. Huxley coined this noun referring to someone whose religious beliefs lie so...

Deuteronomy 32:43 Hebrew Text (Leningrad Codex): הַרְנִ֤ינוּ גֹויִם֙ עַמֹּ֔ו כִּ֥י דַם־עֲבָדָ֖יו יִקֹּ֑ום וְנָקָם֙ יָשִׁ֣יב לְצָרָ֔יו וְכִפ...

Today, it is widely acknowledged that 1 John 5:7 is a spurious text (an interpolation): even Catholic scholars admit that the passage was ad...

 Greetings all, I'm not prohibiting Nincsnevem from ever posting here: he's raised a lot of issues that have been addressed before o...

"And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks , and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought...

"The notion of isotheotes , mortal parity with a god, goes back to Homer and Sappho. Heracles had bridged the gap, had been admitted to...

The Catholic doctrine of Incarnation teaches that the second Person of the Trinity (God the Son/the Logos) united humanity with his preexist...

The apostle Matthew records Jesus telling the mother of Zebedee's sons: "He saith unto them, My cup indeed ye shall drink: but to s...

As we continue with this book discussion, which I will conclude on 7/31/2023, this entry is for chapter 14 of Exegetical Gems . In this unit...

The de re and de dicto distinction became important during the Middle Ages and still has relevance today in modal logic. Additionally, de ...

Merkle begins chapter 13 with some sage advice that concerns reading the biblical text and the presuppositions that we bring to the Bible. Y...

Written 4/23/2004 & edited 7/17/2015; 7/17/2023: S. M. Baugh ( A First John Reader ) recommends that one consult BAGD (now BDAG ) when ...

Due to a busy schedule for the next two days, I will neither be posting nor approving posts until Monday, July 17. Appreciate your patience ...

 Greetings all, I've had an pseudonymous Trinitarian post mostly/ almost all quoted material to the comment boxes. The moderated posts n...

The Gospel of Mark doesn't use διάβολος ( diabolos ), but still refers to Satan tempting Jesus (Mark 1:13) and Mark makes use of the wor...

Chapter 12 of Exegetical Gems is about verbal aspect , and the Bible verse for discussion is Matthew 16:24 (WH): Τότε ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν τοῖς ...

Greek (THGNT): Ἡμῖν δὲ ἀπεκάλυψεν ὁ θεὸς διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος· τὸ γὰρ πνεῦμα πάντα ἐραυνᾷ, καὶ τὰ βάθη τοῦ θεοῦ. 1 Corinthians 2:10 (YLT): ...

Chapter 11 of Merkle's Exegetical Gems concentrates on Greek adjectives and uses 2 Timothy 3:16 as a case example. The Greek there read...

1 Corinthians 15:51 (WH): ἰδοὺ μυστήριον ὑμῖν λέγω· πάντες οὐ κοιμηθησόμεθα πάντες δὲ ἀλλαγησόμεθα, Abbott-Smith Lexicon:   ἰδού , [in LXX c...