The Narrow Path Ministries

Thanks; it was extremely helpful. I'll probably use this as a reference more than once. So, you would say that "miss the mark" would not be a usual meaning for hamartano/hamartia in Koine Greek? Is that purely based on your study of the scripture contexts where this word occurs, or were you also abl...

I have heard over and over in Protestant circles that sin (hamartano, hamartia, etc.) means "miss the mark", as if you shot an arrow at a target and missed. And yet, when I look in the Arndt Gingrich lexicon it only refers to "miss the mark" as a classical Greek meaning of that word. I cannot think ...

Jason, You might want to look at www.ijfm.org, then search for the article "Gospel Communication from Within" by Patrick Cate, as well as some other material there. Most of the suggestions above are really good points, but in isolation might be more argumentative than convincing. There are Muslim an...

Calvin believed that the answer was Yes (in Institutes section 3.23.4).

I suspect the main point here is that Paul was telling the Ephesians not to worry about those people in the Jewish synagogue, or other Christian Judaizers, who said that the Gentile Ephesians weren't truly God's people (see Eph 2:11-22). Their reasoning was that the Jews were the "chosen people", an...

As for the Mystery, I would think the answer is clearly spelled out in Eph 3:3-6 " . . . through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise of Christ Jesus." As for Eph 1:11, the wording, especially in the Greek, is very ...