Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
I have a question on the translation of Galatians 3:22. Most English translations give something like the NIV gives:
But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith…
I was studying Gl 5.22, and I came across this virtues – kindness and goodness. I am Brazilian, and I looked up in dictionary for these two words in Portuguese (Bondade and Benignidade) and they are often used as synonyms. So I tried to lo…
Gal 2:1 WEB Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to
Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
First question: is this the same time as recorded in the book of Acts 15:2
Or Acts 19:21?
If it is the same recorded…
Christ mythicists claim that Paul refers to James as a brother of the Lord only in the same sense that all Christians are (spiritual) brothers.
Here are the relevant passages (NRSV):
Galatians 1:19 Then after three years I did go up to Je…
KJV Colossians 2:16-18
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man begu…
KJV
From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
NIV (and others)
From now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
What does the original language literall…
The old versions show a positive view of the law in Gal 3:23 showing it as guardian keeping in protective custody, but some new versions show the picture of a jailer or kidnapper by using the words captive and prisoners. Which translation …
I know this seems like an old question but here’s the contradiction I’m struggling with:
400 years
“Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants
will be strangers in a land that is not their own; they will be…
I have not been to church in years. I recently went to a friend’s prayer meeting. While there, I was encouraged to read the following from the bible:
"Now a mediator is not of one, but God is one." ( Galatians 3:20, King James V…
The NASB renders Galatians 2:16 as follows:
nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus . . .
The way this is rendered, it sounds like “Not A, but rather B!” I was just r…
Galatians 3:19,
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
What is the relationship with angels…
Galatians 3:19-20
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Now an intermediary implies more tha…