Septuagint

“Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.” (Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV) “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV) Throughout the entirety of the Wisdom Books, the authors, inspired by the Lord, penned wisdom beyond human comprehension. The Wisdom Books are riddled with wise counsel and astute judgment. When one dissects the…

Tashianna Introduction 1. My name is Tashianna Bynum; I have always taken pleasure in the latest trends of fashion and variety of styles clothes offer throughout the course of years. Fashion and clothing have enhanced dreams of mines since my childhood. At the age of two years old, I was selected to become a Fabulous Faces model candidate to walk several runways displaying the latest trendy outfits for infants. This opportunity would transmit over into my later years of life. I would continue…

Chapters 1-9 - A collection of poems directed to an audience of ancient Israelite culture (“my son”). These poems are based on presenting to different lifestyles. These lifestyles are lead by wisdom and foolishness. Chapters 10-29 - These chapters follow the themes of wisdom and foolishness, but not in a poetic form. These chapters include wise sayings, and some researchers believe that these chapters would have been taught in schools. Chapters 30-31 - The last two chapters contain a mixture of…

Do you know what KJV stands for? It stands for King James Version. The King James Version is a latin translation, of the authorized version of the bible. This book is actually the first major dictionary for many people. And also, in the year of 1611, King James wanted a bible that others could read and repeat. During this time you actually had to hand write every single copy that you wanted. Since King James wanted this repetition done so it would be shared and learned by many. Out of all the…

Ethics is defined as “The moral principles that govern a person’s behavior” (Dictionary.com). Christian ethics must be based on Biblical principles as well. The differences are that Christian ethics brings Biblical values into each of these approaches. The Biblical principles, virtues are required to assist with ethical and moral decisions. I am not going to target two specific ethical dilemmas regarding Christian technology however I will attempt to resolve and explain how Christians can use…

Charles Thomson was one of our founding fathers that became an outstanding man in Pennsylvania. He had become a tutor and teacher, at different school. He held a position with the government for a period of time. He ran several businesses in his career. Charles had a passion for knowledge. He overcame quite few obstacles in his life from childhood on up. During the destruction of the woolen trade and the enforcement of the Test Act Charles was born. This was the time when the…

1. Galilee a. Galilee is a northern Israel region that Jesus called home for approximately 30 years of his life and it is also the primary setting for the Gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke which record Jesus’ ministry within that area (Nelson, 1897, p.1). 2. Messianic Secret a. The Messianic Secret is a theological motif addressed by William Wrede which concludes that Mark solved the issue church’s lack of written accounts of Jesus’ “messiahship” because the historical Jesus never claimed to be…

masculine noun baptismos "ritual washing" The verb baptizein occurs four times in the Septuagint in the context of ritual washing, baptismos; Judith cleansing herself from menstrual impurity, Naaman washing seven times to be cleansed from leprosy, etc. Additionally, in the New Testament only, the verb baptizein can also relate to the neuter noun baptisma "baptism" which is a neologism unknown in the Septuagint and other pre-Christian Jewish texts. This broadness in the meaning of baptizein is…

Dr. Elmer Towns in the article “Arguments that the Bible is the Word of God” gives ten opportunities for Christians to share with not only non-believers, but with fellow Christians that the Bible is the Word of God. Reading, I discovered that each message compliments the other. Each argument is able to stand alone while under a skeptic scrutiny, but combined becomes a powerful message. One argument has always been in my own conversation is the empirical fulfillment of prophecy. Prophecy is…

THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS vv.1 - 2 Luke emphatically intends to show the role of the Spirit in the ministry of Christ. He begins the contextual description for the narrative by describing Jesus as “full of the Holy Spirit”, an exclusive Lukan claim that immediately follows the baptism narrative where the Spirit is descending in the form of a dove. He is then led by this same Spirit into the wilderness, in which the Greek prepositional phrase εν τω πνευματι most likely conveys intervention through the…