The Narrow Path Ministries

Hi to the person who identifies themself as commonsense, Thanks for engaging the subject. By the way, there was an interesting a book by Bercot called Common Sense . Does that have anything to do with your nickname? The following is a rather long sentence I wrote to Darin a few days ago. Since you c...

Hi Darin, Glad to learn that you don't see my previous posts as a waste of time and space. Since I'm pressed for time at the moment, I'll post my response to the middle segment of your last message. (Last night the site was down?..) You said, But, also how can you distinguish between "father of eter...

Hi Darin, Thanks for your quick reply. Toward the end of your last message you wrote: I do think the Tanakh translation is interesting, however, in seeing the references not to the child but to the Father. Textual omissions otherwise notwisthanding, I'm wondering what you think about that translatio...

Hi Darin, The following is a clip from something you posted: The phrase “Mighty God” can also be better translated. Although the word “God” in the Hebrew culture had a much wider range of application than it does in ours, the average reader does not know or understand that. Readers familiar with the...

Seeing that the exchange here pivots around Paul's acknowledgment of Jesus as the rock, it makes sense to consider Peter's input along similar lines. Since a bulk of metaphorical links to stones and rocks pivot around Peter's own confession of Christ as the Son of God (including Peter's own change o...

There are phrases such as "in the spirit" or "in the flesh" (presumably assuming that the referent had both) but each are referring to a fully human person. Do we even have a reference like that in regards to Jesus? 1 Timothy 3:16 comes to mind: ..."he [or 'God'] was manifest in [the] flesh, justif...

A couple early writings that cite segments of Mark 16:9-20 are Tatian's Diatessaron and Irenaeus' Against Heresies. The Diatessaron was probably composed during the mid to late second century. A comparison of sections 53.25ff. and 55.3ff. with Mark 16:9-20 suggests that Tatian was familiar with a co...

was Jesus claiming to be the 'I am/Yahweh' of Exodus 3? Or is Jesus claiming to be the one who's day Abraham rejoiced that he would see- namely the Messiah, the promised Abrahamic seed (singular Gal. 3), that Abraham was looking forward to by faith. which was enough to warrant stoning seemingly at ...

StevenD wrote: Who in their right mind could see God as a throne anyway? Paidion wrote: Everyone! Once he understands what I pointed out in an earlier post. The throne of a king is the symbol of the king's authority. For God to be your throne forever figuratively means that God is your authority fo...

Hi Paidion, Fortunately, Mark features more than one language by which to convey what he meant. Mark 13:34 grants the luxury of working with both the Aramaic transliteration and the Greek (not to mention the Hebrew parent text from Psalm 22). The Aramaic is usually written as something like "Eloi, E...