Scripture is like the world: “undecipherable in its fullness and in the multiplicity of its meanings.” [It is] a deep forest, with innumerable branches, “an infinite forest of meanings”: the more involved one gets in it, the more one discovers that it is impossible to explore it right to its end. It is a table [...]
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“Endless voyaging ‘with all sails set’”
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How do we read Old Testament stories in light of the grand story?
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A helpful post and good introduction to a class I will be beginning on Biblical Theology this Sunday. HT: Ray Ortlund
Why God is ultimate
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Living faith in God entails sharing God’s priorities. The biblical authors had a living faith in God. Therefore the biblical authors shared God’s priorities. God himself is top priority. Therefore the biblical authors had God as their top priority. (James M. Hamilton, Jr., God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, p. 557)
The Big Picture of the Bible, for Kids
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, Family on August 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What’s your favorite story? I asked that question of some children yesterday and received a number of different responses. They also told me that they often read their favorite stories over and over again. Many of us do that simply because we enjoy our favorite stories. After having my son read a paragraph from a [...]
I Commend Joy!
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you were speaking with a negative, pessimistic person who commented frequently on the absurdity of life, would you be surprised when that person said, I commend joy? I know I would! That’s exactly how this statement should affect us as we read it from the Preacher’s lips in the book of Ecclesiastes. Come to [...]
Man cannot find it out
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out. Eccl. 8:17 No one likes the unknown. We [...]
Wisdom, Injustice, and the Wicked
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Francis Bacon warns us not to “draw down or submit the mysteries of God to our reason.” Ecclesiastes 8:10-17 is just one of those situations in which we might be tempted to try to figure God out. The situation is the burial of the wicked. These wicked people used to go in and out of [...]
Wisdom and Authority
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Who? Who? Who? Throughout Ecclesiastes, especially in chap. 8:1-9, the author (“the Preacher”) asks rhetorical questions beginning with who. Throughout the book the expected answer, almost without exception, is no one. So he begins this section. Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? (Eccl. 8:1) No one is so [...]
Are we righteous in vain?
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? (Eccl. 7:16-17) At first glance these statements give one pause. What is the Preacher trying to say? As I have been blogging through my [...]
Who knows what is good for man?
Posted in Biblical Studies, Biblical theology, tagged Ecclesiastes on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
That’s one of the questions the Preacher asks in Ecclesiastes 6:12. What is good for a man in times of adversity and absurdity under the sun? He tells us seven things in Eccl. 7:1-14. Reputation: a good name gives what money cannot buy. Consideration: It is better to go to the house of mourning than [...]
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