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Aquila and Priscilla

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 3
8 May, 2016

Aquila and his wife Priscilla were Jews and natives of Pontus. Pontus extended along the coast of the Pontus Euxinus Sea, from which the name was derived. It is mentioned three times in the New Testament (Acts 2:9; 18:2; 1 Peter 1:1). These passages show there were many Jewish residents in the...
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Tagged Acts, Aquila, Paul, Priscilla
Our Sin and Our Saviour

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 3
8 May, 2016

Pope Gregory I, also known as Gregory the Great, died in the year 604. You may not have heard of him, even if he was great but I am sure you have heard of something he invented. It was Gregory the Great who came up with the ‘seven deadly sins.’...
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Tagged Parables, Pope Gregory, Romans, Salvation, Saviour, Sin
Tel Arad

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 3
8 May, 2016

Standing in the ‘Holy of Holies,’ I had this strange feeling that I really ought not be be there. Indeed, I thought also that it really ought not to be there either, for I was about 30 miles south of Jerusalem at Tel Arad. Not far from the southern end...
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Tagged Archaeology, Holy of Holies, Negev, Tel Arad, Temple
The Death of Jesus

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 3
8 May, 2016

I don’t do crucifixions, for which I am grateful. It’s a Roman job so I don’t have to do it. My jurisdiction ends once I have passed the prisoner over to the death squad. Personally I have no problem with the death penalty. It’s the means of death that I...
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Tagged Cross, Crucifixion, Death, Easter, Good Friday, Gospels, Jerusalem, Jesus, Longinus, Romans
The Expired Word?

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 2
29 August, 2015

The English word ‘inspiration’ has an interesting history, dating from perhaps the early part of the 14th century. The basic underlying idea is of an external influence or stimulation producing extraordinary effects within a given object or person. Within theology, where the word (and its associated verb, ‘to inspire’) seems...
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Tagged Bible study, Inspiration, Word study
Perfect Unicorns

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 2
29 August, 2015

I am old enough to remember an advert for CDM. It was a good advert and I enjoyed it because I was a great fan of CDM; it was my favourite chocolate. It still would be if I had not become a diabetic and therefore unable to eat it. CDM,...
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Tagged Creation, Science
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: a chronology

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 2
29 August, 2015

As we seek to understand God’s word better, it is often useful to take the time to sketch out a chronology of the lives of those we are studying. Often, we assume the ages of the characters to be what we saw depicted in children’s Bible classes when we were...
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Tagged Abraham, Chronology, Family, Genesis, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph
The Narrative of Scripture

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 2
29 August, 2015

The idea that the Bible somehow expresses its authority in a series of arbitrary dos and don’ts or as a handbook of essential doctrines is, to any who have read the book, quite simply absurd. There are dos and there are don’ts, and there are doctrines too, all of which...
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Tagged Authority, Bible study, Narrative
The Lion Handbook to the Bible (fourth edition)

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 2
29 August, 2015

The Lion Handbook to the Bible was originally intended as a revision of the Inter-Varsity Press’s New Bible Handbook, first edited by G. T. Manley. However the new editors, husband and wife David and Pat Alexander, wanted to make the new book fully illustrated which IVP felt was not a...
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Tagged Bible study
Studying Parables of Jesus

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| BiBloS, BiBloS Issue 2
29 August, 2015

In our day to day language we often use figures of speech to add colour and interest to our conversations. We might describe someone as being “as brave as a lion” or we might say someone is behaving “like a bull in a china shop.” A particularly uninteresting experience might...
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Tagged Bible study, Fig tree, Gospels, Parables, Teaching, Vineyard