Evidences

“BEYOND THE JORDAN”:  A PHRASE IN QUESTION

“KINGDOM OF HEAVEN”/“KINGDOM OF GOD”/“CHURCH”

2 PETER AND JUDE IN PARALLEL

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A CLUSTER OF POSITIONS

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1.   (Un)conscious desire to avoid the demand made on a person’s life if these materials are

A RATIONALE FOR THE STRUCTURE OF GENESIS 1:1-2:3

ABBREVIATED TIME

ACCEPTING THE PAULINE CORPUS

ANIMAL SYMBOLISM IN BIBLICAL APOCALYPTIC

BASIC CONCEPTS IN CREATIONIST-EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT

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Can we put in sequence the origin of reciprocating parts that are necessary for the viability of the organism and the parts themselves? If we can put their origin in sequence, they are not reciprocal. But the parts of plants and animals are in fact reciprocally interdependent unto viability. All parts have to be present and functional at all times. Disorganization destroys functionality.

CANON CRITICISM

CHARACTERISTICS AND PECULIARITIES OF 1 PETER

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CHARACTERISTICS AND PECULIARITIES OF ACTS

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CHARACTERISTICS AND PECULIARITIES OF COLOSSIANS

CHARACTERISTICS AND PECULIARITIES OF EPHESIANS

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CHARACTERISTICS AND PECULIARITIES OF HEBREWS

CHARACTERISTICS AND PECULIARITIES OF ROMANS

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF PAUL

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COLOSSIANS, PHILEMON, AND EPHESIANS SENT

SIMULTANEOUSLY  (plus the letter to the Laodecians?)

COMMENTS ON CREATION VS. EVOLUTION

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COMMENTS ON EXTREME EVIL

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COMPARING THEISM AND NATURALISM IN ORIGINS THEORY

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CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO 1 JOHN

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CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO 1 PETER

CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO 2 JOHN

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CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO 2 PETER

CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO 3 JOHN

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 I. Authorship

It is uncertain whether there is any evidence for 3 John ‘s being cited before the third century, if the Muratorian Canon speaks only of two epistles of John. This lack of citation and mention is understandable because of its brevity and the character of its contents. What was said of “the Elder” in connection with 1 John applies here also.

CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO JAMES

CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO JUDE

DATES AND ORIGIN OF NEW TESTAMENT WRITINGS

DESTINATION AND DATE OF GALATIANS

EVIL IN THE WORLD: IS GOD HOLY?

EXTERNAL TESTIMONY TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF HEBREWS

EXTRA NAMES IN THE HEADINGS OF

FAITH AND SIGHT/SCIENCE

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            Science deals with the experience of recurrent natural processes in the present. The technology science uses enhances the degree and kinds of sense perception in the natural realm.

FRAGMENTING PHILIPPIANS

GAMALIEL’S ARGUMENT FOR THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS

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GENERAL SCHEMATIC FOR CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS

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GENERAL SCHEMATIC FOR CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS

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GNOSTICISM AND THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS

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GOOD AND EVIL IN ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE:

HELP FROM REVELATION

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Good triumphs over evil.

GOODSPEED’S ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE

HEBREWS AND THE ALEXANDRIAN ORIGIN OR DESTINY

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HEBREWS’ RHETORICAL STYLE

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND BEHIND GALATIANS

IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNITY OF BIBLICAL MATERIALS

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    I. Jeremiah as a test case

INTELLIGENTLY DISCUSSING CREATION AND EVOLUTION

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            The presentation here is not for solving the creation-evolution problem, but for clarifying the issue and correcting inappropriate thinking patterns.

INTERNAL EVIDENCE FOR

INTERNAL EVIDENCE ON CRITICAL MATTERS: HEBREWS

INTERNAL EVIDENCE ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF

INTERPRETATION IN HEBREWS CONTRASTED TO

THE ALLEGORICAL METHOD OF PHILO

INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS ON JONAH

IRREGULAR LINGUISTIC FEATURES IN REVELATION:

KNOWING BY FAITH

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Limitations of science

            Science has three major limitations. First, (1) science cannot deal with universals, or absolutes. It is subject to “the plague of particularity” because it is limited to the inductive approach. Science can form and test hypotheses, which are mental deductions from previous particulars; but these hypotheses are approximate, since they are based on limited previous experience. Since science cannot deal with the absolutes of universal space or eternal time, science cannot lead to an adequate understanding of “the big picture.” In short, science cannot produce a worldview. It deals more with particulars than with systematics.

LUKE-ACTS AS INTERPRETED HISTORY

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I.  Selectivity

            The fact that the book does not recount all the events means that selection has occurred. If selection has occurred, the writer does not just tell about a bunch of things that happened (“stream of consciousness”). Rather, he is a historian that makes a judgment about what events are epitomes and direction-setting events. Seeing the big picture, a historian chooses events that—from the vantage point of God above or of later perspective—prove to be more important because of their impact on subsequent events or prove more useful to any distinctive purpose the author may have.

MATTERS THAT AFFECT STYLE

METHOD IN LITERARY CRITICISM

METHODOLOGY FOR CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

NATURAL THEOLOGY AND THE NEW TESTAMENT

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NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES AND THE USE OF AMANUENSES

NOTATIONS ON THE DOCUMENTARY THEORY

FOR ORIGINS OF THE PENTATEUCH

OBSERVATIONS ON REVELATION

ORIGIN OF THE ROMAN CHURCH(ES)

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ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY

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                  A prevalent idea in current religious studies is that Christianity as we know it became associated by way of historical process with the Roman government. The line of descent from Jesus that history preserved was that line of development, both as to its viewpoints and its literature. Petrine Christianity as represented by the Judaizers was the main contrast to Pauline Christianity and its international universalism. Government influence suppressed and destroyed the writings of “heretics” as measured by the preserved standard, and generally disenfranchised its people. So, the understanding of Jesus as well as the canonical literature that has descended to us results from historical processes and no more represent a “legitimate,” or true, understanding of Jesus than other traditions did.

OVERVIEW OF CREATION AND EVOLUTION

PART FOUR: THE PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD IN SKETCH

Part I:  OVERVIEW OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS

PART III: THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

PASTORALS: DATE, DESTINATION, SEQUENCE, PURPOSE

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PAUL’S CONNECTIONS WITH CORINTH

                                                         Writing of 2 Corinthians (2 Cor. 1:1-2)

PAUL’S “MANY ADVERSARIES” IN EPHESUS

PAUL’S VISITS TO JERUSALEM

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Events in Galatians                                                 Events in Acts

PECULIARITIES OF JOHN’S GOSPEL

PECULIARITIES OF LUKE

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1.   Indicates most noticeably the prayer life of Jesus

PECULIARITIES OF MARK

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PECULIARITIES OF MATTHEW

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           1.  Among the gospels, greatest number of Old Testament citations of prophecies fulfilled in

PEG DATES FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES

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PHILIPPIANS: THE TIME OF WRITING

WITHIN THE ROMAN IMPRISONMENT

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PLACE OF ACTS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

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PLACE OF WRITING THE PRISON EPISTLES

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PRIMARY QUESTIONS IN THE COLLECTION

OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON

REASONS FOR THE “MOOD SHIFT” BETWEEN

RECENSIONS OF ROMANS

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RECIPROCAL CAUSATIONʹ, THE BIOSPHERE,

RECIPROCAL CAUSATIONʹ, THE BIOSPHERE,

RECIPROCAL CAUSATIONʹ, THE BIOSPHERE,

AND THEISTIC PROOF

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOURFOLD CORINTHIAN

CORRESPONDENCE THEORY

RESOLVING APPARENT CONTRADICTIONS IN SCRIPTURE

ROMANS: ORIGIN, DATE, AND DESTINATION

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SELAH IN THE PSALMS

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SEQUENCE OF THE THESSALONIAN CORRESPONDENCE

SKETCH OF PROPOSITIONS AND PRESUPPOSITIONS

SOURCES OF THE PAULINE MATERIAL

SUFFERING IN THE WORLD: DOES GOD LOVE US?

THE “PREVIOUS LETTER” TO THE CORINTHIANS

THE “SPEECHES” IN ACTS

THE ANTIQUITY AND CHARACTER OF RITUAL SACRIFICE

THE COLOSSIAN HERESY

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THE DATE OF THE EVENTS IN JOB

THE DETERMINING PRINCIPLES FOR CANONICITY

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                  In keeping with the structure of apologetics, the following sketch deals with the principles for determining whether a writing belongs in the Judaeo-Christian canon.

THE GOSPELS IN GENERAL

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 I. Form

THE MOSES-TIME VIEWPOINT OF GENESIS-DEUTERONOMY

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THE NOACHIAN FLOOD

THE ORIGIN OF GNOSTICISM AND ITS BEARING ON THE

DATE OF COLOSSIANS

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THE PROBLEM OF THE PASTORALS

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     THE PURPOSE OF ACTS

THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SYNOPTICS

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THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA

THE SEVEN DAYS OF CONSUMMATION

THE STRUCTURE OF JOB

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The Set-Up: Behind the Scenes: 1-2

THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS

THE THIRD REASON

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Introductory Comment

THE WITNESS OF ACTS TO THE KERYGMA

THESSALONIANS TIME LINE

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TRACING PAUL’S MOVEMENTS

BEHIND THE THESSALONIAN CORRESPONDENCE

TYPICAL ISSUES IN CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

USE OF AMANUENSES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

(Overview)

WISDOM LITERATURE

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Introduction