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PHall | January 24, 2023
Star Trek is one of my favorite science fiction franchises. Despite my fandom, it displays an illogical reality, to reference Spock. That false reality is that life is so common that it can be found everywhere by humans who “boldly go where no man has gone before”. Shifting universes from fiction to fact, atheists […]
PHall | September 2, 2021
Don’t Follow the Crowd? The gospel of Mark is one of contrast, not of imagery like light and dark in John, but of reactions of groups versus individuals. The latter fair better. One of the most glaring contrasts might be the individual Herod versus the group called disciples. Surely, wicked, adulterous, murderous, Herod fairs worse […]
PHall | November 8, 2019
Ending the most thorough material on the resurrection is a high end, exalted conclusion:• “… Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, death, is your victory? Where, death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the […]
PHall | August 31, 2014
The attitude and desire of the Troas Christians gathering on the first day of the week to break bread should be more instructive to us than the simple fact that they did (Acts 20:7). Why precedes what. Following their example of what without following their example of why leads to formalism and empty tradition. Remember, […]
PHall | May 17, 2012
“Another authenticating feature of the resurrection narrative is that the first appearances of the risen Christ were not to His disciples, but rather to women – to Mary Magdalene and the other women. This must have been an embarrassment to the apostles, Christ’s inner circle. They were likely quite jealous.” “According to Jewish principles of […]
PHall | September 16, 2009
Should pneuma be translated “Spirit” or “spirit?” Robertson quotes, “Not the Holy Spirit, but a description of Christ ethically as kata sarka describes him physically (Denney) (Robertson’s Word Pictures). Comparing various translations show respected opinions on both sides: Spirit – BBE; EMTV; ESV; HCSB; LITV; NASB; YLT; NKJV; NIV; TNIV; NLT; NCV spirit – ASV; […]