Friday, November 29, 2024

Alexander Smarius on John 1:1c

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    Against reading John 1:1 c as “The Word as (the) God”:   However, the majority of commentators do not think the Greek must be unde...

E.P. Sanders on the man handed over to Satan in 1 Corinthians 5

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    One of Paul’s converts was living with ‘his father’s wife’, probably his stepmother (see Deut. 22: 30; 27: 20; Lev. 18: 8). Paul corre...

John A. Tvedtnes on the Innocence of Children in Early Christianity

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The following is taken from John A. Tvedtnes, Joseph Smith and the Ancient World (unpublished):   Origen, a noted early third-century A....

John A. Tvedtnes on Man Being Able to See God if Transfigured (cf. D&C 67:11)

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The following is taken from John A. Tvedtnes, Joseph Smith and the Ancient World (unpublished):   Moses 1:9 records that “the presence o...

K. Kohler Presenting a Very "Mormon" Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 15:40-44

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    . . .  must our New Testament exegetes fail to understand the words of the apostle in 1 Cor. xν. 40ff, where Paul, speaking of the σώμ...

Description of Gehenna and those who suffer therein

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    At Gehenna's gate Joshua ben Levi saw (ib. I. 148, cf. Exodus Rabba, § 40) persons hung up by their noses, others by their hands s...

W. D. Davies and Dale C. Allison on the Appearance of Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration

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    Why are Moses and Elijah mentioned? Probably because they are the two OT figures who encountered God on Sinai/Horeb. But Moses and Eli...