Category Archives: study
Three Levels Contra Practicing “Freedom” in 1 Cor 8-10
After giving an overview of 1 Cor 8-10, we can draw some conclusions about what’s going on in the Church of Corinth and what’s ultimately wrong with the practice of some. There is a group of people, known as The Strong With Knowledge, who are visiting the local temples and eating food which has been [...]
Paul’s Argument in 1 Corinthians 8-10
I’ve been talking about how our world is really close to the world of 1 Corinthians but we don’t realize it—but I haven’t managed to show why I think that. To do that, I wanted to spend time thinking about interaction with idolatry by examining 1 Corinthians 8-10, a passage which is often misread by [...]
Single-Purpose Letter Writing?
The contention is that the letters to the churches in the Revelation of Jesus Christ should be read in only one way with one intended purpose. If read in that way, the contender states, then the rest of the book should be read that way. I will deal with the first charge by examining if [...]
On Examining A Story
James was found riding his bike every other Saturday. Allow me a moment to apply a term to this sentence that isn’t normally used: story*. You understand that the sentence is attributing an action (riding his bike) to a specific person (James) within a certain time frame (every other Saturday)—but this doesn’t have to be [...]
Major Themes of Scripture