The Church Fathers and the Holy Scripture Geoffrey W. Bromiley THE FACT OF SCRIPTURE THE OLD TESTAMENT The early church arose in a situation in which Holy Scripture already existed as a fact. Jesus and the apostles belonged to the people through whom and to whom God had given the Old Testament in what became […]
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The Truth of Scripture and the Problem of Historical Relativity Philip Edgcumbe Hughes The Bible is a collection of documents belonging to a period of history now long past. The most recent of its writings, those that comprise the books of the New Testament, are nineteen hundred years removed from the age in which we
The New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Text Form and Authority Moisés Silva Most Christians, I suspect, have at some point or another in their spiritual pilgrimage been seriously disturbed by the statement “Such-and-such a word is not found in the better biblical manuscripts.” To hear that kind of a remark for the first
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Redaction Criticism: On the Legitimacy and Illegitimacy of a Literary Tool D. A. Carson INTRODUCTION A British journal recently published a short series of articles under the general title “Slippery Words.”1 Contributors treated such terms as myth, eschatology, and the like. No doubt the editor could have enlarged the list of entries had he chosen
On the Form, Function, and Authority of the New Testament Letters Richard N. Longenecker Of the twenty-seven New Testament writings, twenty-one are letters. The four Gospels, of course, are not letters; neither are the Acts of the Apostles and the Apocalypse of John. Within the Acts and the Apocalypse, however, there are nine more
Isaiah 53 speaks of the people of Israel, not Jesus (or any Messiah). It is impossible, both contextually and logically, for Isaiah 53 to be speaking of the people of Israel. Rather, the text clearly speaks of one individual, and as many rabbis recognized through the ages, that individual was the Messiah. For the last
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If you want to know what Isaiah 53 is talking about, just read Isaiah 52 and 54. The context is the return of the Jewish people from Babylonian exile, 550 years before Jesus. There is some truth to what you are saying. The prophet saw the future glory of Israel and the work of the
Isaiah 7:14 does not prophesy a virgin birth! And it has nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus, since it dealt with a crisis seven hundred years before he was born.
Isaiah 9:6 does not speak of a divine king (or Messiah).
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Nowhere in the Hebrew Bible are we told that we must “believe in the Messiah.” This is hardly an accurate statement, and it is not even in harmony with Jewish tradition. Believing in God, his prophets, and his Messiah is basic to the biblical faith, while one of the thirteen principles of the Jewish faith
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