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Wright’s Into the Heart of Romans– Part Seven

Last updated on: January 28, 2025 at 8:38 am By Ben Witherington

In Rom. 8.22-27 we have begun to move to the climax of this powerful positive Spirit-filled argument. Here Tom emphasizes that Christians must be prepared to suffer with those who suffer in pain, and with the creation itself which is groaning for liberation, and even the Spirit is groaning within us and on our behalf, with groans too deep for mere words, so great is the longing for liberation. Paul quite rightly speaks of stages of liberation in this passage–... Read more

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Wright’s Into the Heart of Romans– Part Six

Last updated on: January 28, 2025 at 8:07 am By Ben Witherington

As it turns out, it was not just human beings that experienced the consequences of human sin, or ‘the Fall’, so did all of creation, and Rom. 8.17-21 is the passage that highlights this disturbing reality. Creation has been subjected to decay and death, just like human beings, and its fate is linked to ours, hence creation is looking forward to the day when God’s children will be revealed as raised from the dead, and beyond disease, decay and death. ... Read more

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Wright’s Into The Heart of Romans– Part Five

Last updated on: January 28, 2025 at 7:38 am By Ben Witherington

Rom. 8.12-17 is about what the Spirit does in the life of the believer, including leading them, eliminating the spirit of fear, and replacing it with a spirit of sonship which leads to an intimate prayer with God whom one can even call Abba, like Jesus himself did. And furthermore, as children of God we are also heirs, fellow heirs with Christ himself ‘as long as we suffer with Him so we may be glorified with Him. One of the... Read more

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the tale of two spirit witnesses

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Welcome to Planet Fatness

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 4:04 pm By Ben Witherington

All this time you thought you were getting fit, but the large shadow of America’s cultural Embassy was frankly overshadowing all your efforts. But seriously folks, I was in Luxor with a group of my students once and we were studying the hieroglyphics at Luxor, and my students had been eating Middle eastern food for a week, and listening to languages they didn’t know, such as Arabic, and our guide knew they were coming down with a case of cultural... Read more

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Wright’s Into the Heart of Romans– Part Four

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 10:57 pm By Ben Witherington

One of the more interesting aspects of Tom’s treatment of Rom. 8.5-11 which is the next subsection, is his reading of the last verse of the section, which he takes to mean that the Holy Spirit who lives within the believer ‘will give life to your mortal bodies on a parallel to the way God physically raised Jesus from the dead. This Spirit is said on the one hand to be God’s Spirit, but also elsewhere Jesus’ Spirit (presumably because... Read more

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to be absent from 'the body' and present with the Lord'

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Getting Ahead in His Reading

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 3:56 pm By Ben Witherington

Forget speed reading, or skimming, but with technical texts you need to take a detached approach, take the time to back up and get some perspective on what is being claimed in the text, and then ruminate on what you’ve learned. As it says in Alice in Wonderland— Feed your head. Read more

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This approach is a no brainer.

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Everyone Loves Valentine’s Day– Doggone It

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 4:08 pm By Ben Witherington

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As Marie A. said--- let them eat cake.

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Buster Crabb does Power Lifting

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 3:40 pm By Ben Witherington

And you thought it was impossible, but no. Buster sets the new Myrtle Beach record for power-lifting by someone who weighs .009 lbs. Rumor has it he works for minnow man wage. Read more

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Never under estimate a crustacean

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The Phrase Spice Road Has New Meaning

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 3:47 pm By Ben Witherington

If you know the story about the ancient spice road that went through Petra in Nabatea and up to Syria and Mesopotamia, you will know the story about how frankincense and myrrh made its way to the Holy Land, but archaeologists have been unable to figure out why the road itself, and not just the trade that went north and south on it was called a spice road— until now. This truck was caught in the act during a storm,... Read more

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Tis the season for seasoning

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The Victorians in the Holy Land– Dialogue with the Author

Last updated on: January 27, 2025 at 1:39 pm By Ben Witherington

Ben: Allan what was it that prompted you to write this particular book? In so many ways, it is a unique cross-disciplinary study, helpful in various ways? Allan: All the subjects touched upon have fascinated me from childhood. Bible stories, travel narratives, and real adventures go back to my earliest years. My family, living in a gas-lit former coal mining cottage, was also full of story-tellers, and stories and the best way of telling them were absorbed from infancy... Read more

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