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Showing posts with label Interpretation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interpretation. Show all posts
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #48: Using Midrash to limit Jesus and bash the Church, plus hypocrisy about taking scripture "literally."

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  One of the challenges in responding to the massive amount of output coming from FFOZ is to not become numb to seeing the same tactics used...
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Friday, September 5, 2025

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #41: More disparaging of grace and using a folktale to interpret scripture

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 I'll admit, I'm a fan of God's grace.  That isn't a hot-take, nor should it raise anyone's eyebrows.  If there are a fe...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

A foundational flaw: The Torah Clubs (FFOZ) teach Christians are grafted into Israel, but that's not what Romans 11 says

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A little bit of biblical interpretation can be a dangerous thing when placed in the service of an agenda.  In this case, the Hebrew Roots Mo...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

The Torah Clubs (FFOZ) remind us why we need an educated and accountable clergy - James 3:1 and 1 Timothy 1:6-7

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  The picture at the start of this article is the moment that Pastor James Frank, my mentor and the only pastor that I've ever had {he w...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

The deplorable shame of using Potiphar's Wife to discount sex abuse victims: A refutation of Pastor Doug Wilson

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Given the recent insanity of the "Empathy is Sin" movement { The folly of the "Sin of Empathy" - A self-inflicted wound ...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Sermon Video: "Have faith in God" Mark 11:12-14, 19-23

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  Mark arranges this two-part episode before and after Jesus' cleansing of the Temple in order to highlight its use as a symbolic repres...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Manifest (TV show), Romans 8:28, and contextual interpretation of Scripture

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  Romans 8:28  New International Version And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called a...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Sermon Video: Divorce: From God's Perspective - Mark 10:1-12

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  Marriage being a fundamental building block of human society, questions about the purpose of marriage, and the morality/legality of divorc...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Sermon Video: Why did Jesus do that? - Mark 7:24-37

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  Some things in life are confusing, including the Word of God. There are passages and episodes in God's Word that, rightly, are head s...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Abusing the Word of God: PragerU's "Is Jesus a Socialist?"

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Eisegesis: is the process of interpreting text in such a way as to introduce one's own presuppositions, agendas or biases. It is commonl...