The Narrow Path Ministries

I once thought that becoming a Greek scholar would give me greater mastery over understanding the biblical text. Since those days, I have observed that those who read Greek often come to think that syntax (rather than context) is everything in the task of biblical interpretation—when, in fact, a da...

And we know that God causes all things to to work together for good to those who love God.... except for Rick C. I guess God has nothing to do but just sit and watch you all day like watching t.v. The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. The Holy Bible : English standard v...

Considering it was one of the sermons that sparked the greatest revival in American history, I will let the fruit of which speak for itself.

I know some Greek. What does that have to do with my desire for genuine religion? I thought that maybe you where a "purest" in the sense that you don't rely on "seeing through" any from any century and you just "go back to the apostles". Since the apostles wrote in Greek and you don't want to use a...

Rick, you said:

I want the Real Deal.

If you want the real deal then I infer you know Greek very well. Is that a correct inference?

Gathering that you want to go off of what the apostles said and not what "man" said.

Proper exegesis of this text really isn't that difficult but VERY confusing if deriving understanding from the English because of word order. And there is a HUGE problem with understanding the text because there is a "textual variant" that must be dealt with. πρὸς means to or toward (or course To is...

Homer, No problem, it might take a day or so since I have never arced and diagrammed this verse before. I have to look up the syntactical relations to the cases. πρὸς to, ἐπὶ has eight different meanings depending on case, and εἰς is tricky depending on case and construct. Also these are governed by...

As far as the reformation goes, it still stands that it was based on predestination and election. I would like evidence of the differences solely on the Augustinian view of predestination and election and that of Luther (who was an Augustinian monk). Since the topic is prevenient grace, it was impli...

This is the most famous sermon in American history. I guess because it is so bad and dishonors the character of God that He blessed it for being so popular for over 200 years.

Haas,

Piper rules, he's my Pastor.