Part 1 – “God is Love” Whatever one thinks of the nature of the Bible—whether word-for-word divinely inspired or written by humans but to some degree and in some ways guided and influenced by divine involvement—few question that the central and foundational nature of God can be best be summed up in one word: LOVE[1].…
For many Christians, the meaning of 2 Timothy 3:16 is clear and uncomplicated. They insist that the creator of this text was stating that the sixty-six books that comprise the Protestant Bible are the only books that are inspired by God and that inspiration assures God’s initiation, engagement, and oversight of the authorship, transmission, canonization,…
Wesner, Maralene and Miles Wesner. When God Can’t Answer. Macon, GA: Nurturing Faith, 2022. This is a relatively short (100 pages in paperback) and dense effort to explain why many (maybe even most) prayers are not answered. Fundamentally, the authors explain and conclude that God’s nature and human freedom are the reasons for “unanswered” prayers.…
In my ongoing—feels like never-ending—research for my dissertation, I ran across the following two paragraphs, written by Jerome to Pope Damasus in 383 CE. It is Jerome’s preface to his translation of the New Testament—with a few comments about the Old Testament. The source of the following quotation is https://vulgate.org/ but I have emphasized in…
Chapter 4: A Biblical Text? The Variety of Versions Not only do we not have any “original” of any biblical book, neither do we possess any “final” authoritative form of any biblical book. The ancient manuscripts we possess in Hebrew and Aramaic (OT), and Greek (NT) exist in pluriformity (multiple, and diverse forms). The ancient…
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BRIAN FELUSHKO
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