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by mikew
Mon May 22, 2023 8:55 pm
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Challenge -- Write Like Paul
Replies: 9
Views: 7353

Re: Challenge -- Write Like Paul

Paul writing style is chiastic. That is a sequence leading to a main point and then the sequence is repeated in reverse order. In fact most of the Old and New Testament is written in this style. I call it the Holy Spirit style. https://www.chiasmusxchange.com/2015/02/28/romans-41-13/ Example There ...
by mikew
Sat May 20, 2023 12:11 pm
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Challenge -- Write Like Paul
Replies: 9
Views: 7353

Re: Challenge -- Write Like Paul

Paul used run-on sentences too much. He was not a rhetorician. If we are talking about general techniques of persuasion (rather than classical Roman rhetorical writing used in law and politics), Paul demonstrates great rhetorical prowess. The letter to the Romans, for example, uses the Nathan-David...
by mikew
Sat May 20, 2023 11:55 am
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Challenge -- Write Like Paul
Replies: 9
Views: 7353

Re: Challenge -- Write Like Paul

I don't follow why you are doing this. Paul had his own way of writing, speaking, expressing himself, and teaching. Most, if not all of that was given to him by revelation, and therefore becomes the word of God. What is the purpose of us trying to write or speak in the same or similar way as he did...
by mikew
Fri May 19, 2023 12:12 pm
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Challenge -- Write Like Paul
Replies: 9
Views: 7353

Re: Challenge -- Write Like Paul

Here's an example of taking part of this passage and saying it the way I might (but without the nuances Paul uses). What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. 3 Fo...
by mikew
Fri May 19, 2023 11:53 am
Forum: Acts & Epistles
Topic: Challenge -- Write Like Paul
Replies: 9
Views: 7353

Challenge -- Write Like Paul

Paul writes in a continuous well-connected fashion. If someone has the term for this style of writing, please share it. The challenge is to write out some ideas (or doctrines) in this tightly interwoven fashion. It is okay, however, just to ask questions or add some more insights into this style. We...
by mikew
Mon May 08, 2023 12:44 am
Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
Topic: Jesus is God
Replies: 889
Views: 161874

Re: Jesus is God

I don't believe henotheism is a reasonable position - there I no biblical or historical sense I'm aware of that would support this at least in orthodox ancient Judaism. The God of the Bible which the Jews believed in was in no way seen as "their pick" among many in a pantheon of gods or anything so...
by mikew
Sun May 07, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
Topic: Jesus is God
Replies: 889
Views: 161874

Re: Jesus is God

It is mind-boggling that deniers of Jesus being God could actually twist this and pervert it for their own devious purposes. It is even more mind-boggling to think that this would have been so obvious to Thomas and those around him and yet it wasn't addressed at all as a controversy with the EXTREM...
by mikew
Thu May 04, 2023 7:58 pm
Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
Topic: Jesus is God
Replies: 889
Views: 161874

Re: Jesus is God

Homer with the truth BOMB. Jesus called the Father's will "not my will." They are distinct and yet, at the same time, they are each other. Look at the traditional Trinity doctrine: the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. If each of the three "persons" ...
by mikew
Fri Apr 28, 2023 1:24 am
Forum: Revelation
Topic: Rev 20 as parenthetical
Replies: 0
Views: 10754

Rev 20 as parenthetical

I have noticed Revelation 20:7 to 15 as parenthetical. So it interrupts the chronological connection of Rev 19 to 20:1-6 (roughly) and then to 21. So Rev 20:1-6 (apart from the details of the duration of the 1000 years and the mention of its end) occurs at about the same time as Rev 21. The reason t...
by mikew
Wed Apr 19, 2023 12:10 am
Forum: Eschatology
Topic: Satan Released -- Bopp's Theory
Replies: 6
Views: 21583

Re: Satan Released -- Bopp's Theory

I have known for a long time that we had been seeing much deception in America. This was not sufficient to match the deception of nations per Revelation 20 because America is only one of many nations. It was not until the middle of 2020 that I realized that all the nations could be on track on the s...

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