Download or read book Torah to Telos written by MR Don K. Preston D. DIV and published by Jadon Productions. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Bible students seem to be aware of the absolute necessity for the total fulfillment of the Law of Moses before it could pass. Most claim that Torah ended at the Cross. Jesus said that until every jot and every tittle of Torah was fully accomplished, not one iota of the Law would pass. But, the Law of Moses foretold the second coming of Christ and the resurrection! What this means is that Torah would endure until the Telos (the time of the end). In this first of a planned multi-volume series on the passing of the Law of Moses, Don K. Preston examines Matthew 5:17-18 in great detail, demonstrating the power and the implications of Jesus' words "not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the law, until it is all fulfilled." This book will drastically change the way you look at the Law of Moses and the doctrine of the end times!
Download or read book Elijah Has Come written by Don K. Preston and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romans 11:25-27 continues to be one of the most challenging of all of Paul's writings. Did he predict a yet future salvation of the mass of ethnic Jews at the "Second Coming of Christ" at the end of the current age? What did he mean "all Israel"? In this unparalleled and unprecedented new work, Dr. Preston sets before the reader some incredible facts - facts that virtually all scholars seemingly admit to - but, Preston shows how those admitted facts are never connected to Romans 11! This is stunning! One of those facts is the critical, incredible importance of the mission of John the Baptizer, as The Voice of Isaiah 40, as The Messenger of Malachi 3 and as Elijah of Malachi 4. Virtually all scholars admit these connections, but, they never tie John's mission -- which was indubitably the salvation of Israel - with Romans! What Dr. Preston does in this work is to "connect the dots" between John's ministry and Romans 11, in a way that is not found in any of the literature. And yet, when you read this work, you will be stunned at the simplicity, the power and the undeniable nature of the connections! You may well find yourself asking "How in the world have the scholars overlooked this?" Through careful exegesis of both OT and NT texts, and convincing logical argumentation, Dr. Preston shows us that John's role was to initiate the "restoration of Israel." While scholars say his death prevented success of his ministry, Preston's in-depth discussion of how martyr vindication is a foundational element of the eschatological narrative shows how that claim is in fact wrong. John did not fail! In his investigation of John, Dr. Preston provides continuing documentation of the Bible truth of Torah To Telos, that is, the Biblically, the eschatological consummation belongs at the end (telos) of the Old Covenant Age of Israel that arrived with the dissolution of Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70. This book is Vol. III, in Dr. Preston's series on Torah To Telos. There is not another book like this, anywhere. You will be surprised, however, at how powerful, how thorough, how convincingly Preston has presented his case. One thing is for certain: you will never look at John the Baptizer in the same way. Not only that, you may very well never think of Biblical eschatology in the same way either! This book sheds brilliant light on one of the most perplexing Bible texts, making it now more understandable than ever!
Download or read book The Resurrection of Daniel 12 written by Don K. Preston D. DIV and published by Jadon Productions. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel 12 has historically and creedally been considered as definitive proof that the Bible predicts an "end of time" physical resurrection of human corpses "out of the dust." While that has been the traditional view, things are changing - and changing radically! With the rapid growth of Covenant Eschatology, also known as the full preterist view, the theological landscape is witnessing a New Reformation! Commentators who have in past insisted that Daniel 12 is about "the end of human history," and that "only the human body goes into the grave," are now openly espousing the view that Daniel 12 foretold, not a literal, physical resurrection of human corpses out of the dust, but, the corporate resurrection of the "mortal body," of Old Covenant Israel as the incorruptible body of Christ! To say this is a stunning development is a huge understatement! How do those who now reject the creedal and historical view of Daniel 12 maintain their doctrine of a future literal resurrection, in light of their radical change of view on Daniel 12? Their "explanations" are, to put it bluntly, specious and untenable, as Dr. Don K. Preston demonstrates in this amazing new book. This book has already been described as "The Death of Dominionism," (Postmillennialism). In fact, it has been called the definitive, fatal blow to all futurist views of a literal, physical resurrection at a so-called end of time! If you think you understand the Bible doctrine of the resurrection, you need to read this book! If you think that we must follow the creeds and church history, you need to read this book! If you believe in a future view of the last things, you need to read this book! In this amazing, almost encyclopedic work, Dr. Preston analyses, reviews and refutes every argument that futurists make to maintain a futurist view of the resurrection of Daniel 12. He leaves no stone un-turned, no argument unanswered. There is literally not another book like this - anywhere! As Dr. Preston says at the outset of the book, "If Daniel 12 does not predict and prove a future, literal resurrection of human bodies, then all futurist views of eschatology are false." After reading this incredible book, you will conclude, as Preston does, that Daniel 12 did not predict a future, literal resurrection! You hear and read a lot about "must read" books. Well, this is most definitely a "must read!"
Download or read book Jewish Roots written by Dan Juster and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are your roots firmly grounded in Scripture? The destiny of Israel and the Christian Church is bound together, evident in the Scriptures. Learning this truth is essential for survival. Jewish Roots—A Foundation of Biblical Theology is an introduction to biblical theology from a Jewish contextual point of view plus practical evaluation and council for the Messianic Jewish communities and the Christian Church. Jewish Roots presents the fundamentals regarding biblical theology, Israel and the Church, the Jewish people, the Messianic Jewish community, and much more. Important matters are discussed such as the relationship of law and grace, the role of the Spirit, and an approach to Judaism. This new edition considers recent biblical scholarship and evaluates the progress of the Messianic Jewish community—a pulsating grass roots movement among Jewish and non-Jewish followers of Jesus of Nazareth who recognize and identify with their Jewishness. Messianic Judaism and Messianic Jewish biblical theology are significant not only to those who are part of Messianic Jewish congregations—indeed, because the destiny of Israel and the Church is bound together, Messianic Jewish theology has implications of great importance for all people worldwide.
Download or read book Is Christ Really the End of the Law Another Look at Telos in Romans 10 4 written by Jeffrey Seif and published by Messianic Jewish Resources & Publishers. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are few Pauline statements more controversial than Romans 10:4, specifically the meaning of the word τέλος, telos.τέλος γὰρ νόμου Χριστὸς εἰς δικαιοσύνην παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι. The verse has traditionally been rendered, "For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Some say, "For the goal at which the Torah aims is the Messiah" while others prefer new beginning. Still others offer, "For Messiah is the end of the Torah, that everyone who has faith may be justified" or "Messiah is the culmination of the Torah so that there may be righteousness for everyone believes." Here, as the title indicates, we will consider what interpreters have been saying about this verse over many years and then offer our conclusion." (From Chapter 1)
Download or read book Now Shown Mercy written by Mark Reasoner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reasoner's Now Shown Mercy is the first commentary in 500 years that returns to the quadriga (literal sense plus threefold spiritual sense) in its exegetical approach. The commentary shows how Paul understands Israel to be valued by God for its own sake, not simply as a type of the church or a preparation for the Christ. Paul views Israel as under God's mercy even as he writes Romans chapters 9-11, grieving as he is over both Israel's political subjugation in the first century and its spiritual condition. Since these chapters show that God values Israel for its own sake, the commentary's exegesis calls gentile believers to heed anew Paul's warning against boasting over Israel.
Download or read book Beyond Justification written by Douglas A. Campbell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul proclaims in 90 percent of what he wrote that we have been set free, resurrected, and transformed through Christ at the behest of a loving God. This gospel proclamation can be found wherever he speaks of being "in Christ." But this gospel and its account of salvation has been captured by "another gospel," which also lays claim to being Paul's account of salvation. And this gospel is retributive, conditional, and ultimately damaging. "Justification Theory," as we call this false account, lays claim to just under 10 percent of what Paul wrote. The presence of both these gospels within Paul's interpretation causes numerous acute problems. He is, to name just a few, fundamentally confused, frequently harsh, and unavoidably anti-Jewish. If we reread Paul's justification texts, however, paying more attention to the original historical circumstances within which they were composed, then they turn out to say something subtly but significantly different. Paul's justification texts can be interpreted carefully, faithfully, and consistently, in terms of his usual gospel--our transformation in Christ. Thus Justification Theory is never activated. Paul's true gospel is thereby liberated from its long captivity to a false alternative. We can now see a kinder, gentler, and more consistent, apostle.
Download or read book Torah written by William M. Schniedewind and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume explores the ever-evolving understandings and diverse manifestations of the Hebrew notion of torah in early Jewish and Christian literature and the different roles torah played within those communities, whether in Judea or in the Hellenistic and early Roman diaspora. This collection of essays is purposefully wide-ranging, with contributors exploring and rethinking some of the most basic scholarly assumptions and preconceptions about the nature of torah in light of new critical approaches and methodologies with the goal of seeing how different vantage points and different conclusions can better address the complexity of the topic and better reflect the ambiguity and fluidity inherent in the concept of torah itself. Contributors include Gabriele Boccaccini, Francis Borchardt, Calum Carmichael, Federico Dal Bo, Lutz Doering, Oliver Dyma, Paula Fredriksen, Robert G. Hall, Magnar Kartveit, Anne Kreps, David Lambert, Michael Legaspi, Jason A. Myers, Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Patrick Pouchelle, Jeremy Punt, Michael L. Satlow, Joachim Schaper, William Schniedewind, Elisa Uusimäki, Jacqueline Vayntrub, Jonathan Vroom, James W. Watts, Benjamin G. Wright III, and Jason M. Zurawski.
Download or read book If You Call Yourself a Jew written by Rafael Rodriguez and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''If You Call Yourself a Jew' reads Paul's letter to the Romans as a dialogue between Paul and a gentile proselyte to Judaism. This fresh reading brings Romans into focus as Paul's exposition of the revelation of God's righteousness - his faithfulness tohis covenant promises to Abraham, which is brought to climax in the announcement that
Download or read book The Second Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians written by Jean Hering and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians is concise and clear in presentation. Great care has been spent upon philological details and on obtaining the most probable text, but much of this material is kept out of the body of the commentary and relegated to footnotes. While all the chief commentaries on the Epistle, from St. Chrysostom to the present day, have been utilized by the author, he has deliberately avoided the undue accumulation of references and quotations, and has made his own critical assessment of earlier contributions. The student will find clear guidance for the study of the text, whether he is working with the English or Greek, and a penetrating exposition of its meaning. The more advanced scholar will appreciate the balanced judgment brought to bear upon difficult passages, and the many fresh persuasive solutions proposed. In agreement with the author's wishes, Dr. Heathcote has provided a fresh translation of the text of the Epistle, making use of the French version given by Professor Hering and embodying also the critical decisions reached in the body of the Commentary.
Download or read book Romans written by Aaron Sherwood and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul's majestic letter to the Romans has impacted generations of readers. Christians regularly turn to it as a foundation for doctrine, evangelism, and Christian living. However, individual verses are often pulled from their context or later doctrinal formulations are imported into the text. Are we truly following Paul's meaning? What if we reread Romans on its own terms, with sensitivity to its flow and structure? Aaron Sherwood's Romans commentary keeps Paul's argument central. As we encounter the letter's message and theology, the forest is never lost for the trees. Reading Romans with rhetorical perception results in illuminating and sometimes surprising conclusions. Encounter afresh this majestic letter with Sherwood's insightful commentary.
Download or read book Reflections on Philosophy and Religion written by Alan Donagan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the collected papers of Alan Donagan on topics in the philosophy of religion. Donagan was respected as a leading figure in American moral philosophy. His untimely death in 1991 prevented him from collecting his philosophical reflections on religion, particularly Christianity, and its relation to ethics and other concerns. This collection, therefore, constitutes the fullest expression of Donagan's thought on Christianity and ethics, in which it is possible to discern the outlines of a coherent, overarching theory. Editor Anthony Perovich has supplied a useful introduction, which brings Donagan's work into focus and brings out the unifying themes in the essays.
Download or read book Israel and the Nations written by Eugene Korn and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel and the Nations: The Bible, The Rabbis, and Jewish-Gentile Relations explores the Jewish theology and law (Halakhah) relating to non-Jews. It analyzes biblical, talmudic, medieval, and contemporary Jewish writings about gentiles and their religions. The Bible challenges the Jewish people to be “a blessing for all the families of the earth.” Yet throughout history, Jewish experience with gentiles was complex. In the biblical and talmudic eras most gentiles were assumed to be idolators. In the Middle Ages most rabbis considered their Christian neighbors idolators, and Christian enmity sharpened the otherness Jews felt toward their Christian hosts. Muslims were monotheists, but Jewish-Muslim relations were sometimes positive and at other times difficult. With the advent secular tolerance in modernity, Jews found themselves in a new relationship with their gentile neighbors. How should Jews relate to gentiles today, and what are the bounds of Jewish tolerance and religious pluralism? The book will interest both Jewish laypersons familiar with Jewish tradition as well as scholars of theology and interfaith relations
Download or read book Leaves of Faith written by Aharon Lichtenstein and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals, primarily, with various aspects of traditional Torah learning. The opening chapter focuses upon the rationale and religious significance of the study of gemara in particular, with an eye to the place which presumably obtuse texts have remarkably held in many strata of the traditional Jewish community. This is followed by two essays which analyze the character and methodology of serious talmud Torah. Subsequently, the focus shifts to the interaction between Torah study, narrowly defined, and related areas--whether general culture or national service--which impinge upon the personal and institutional context of Torah study. In a similar vein, two chapters then treat the world of halakhic decision, with reference to both the qualities requisite for the decisor--posek--and the factors which legitimately affect the process. The volume concludes with appreciative portraits of two masters greatly admired by the author, each of whom, in very different ways, exerted a major impact upon him: Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.
Download or read book Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy written by Martin Kavka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish philosophical and theological tradition. For Emmanuel Levinas, as well as for Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen and Moses Maimonides, the Greek concept of nonbeing (understood as both lack and possibility) clarifies the meaning of Jewish life. These thinkers of 'Jerusalem' use 'Athens' for Jewish ends, justifying Jewish anticipation of a future messianic era as well as portraying the subjects intellectual and ethical acts as central in accomplishing redemption. This book envisions Jewish thought as an expression of the intimate relationship between Athens and Jerusalem. It also offers new readings of important figures in contemporary Continental philosophy, critiquing previous arguments about the role of lived religion in the thought of Jacques Derrida, the role of Plato in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and the centrality of ethics in the thought of Franz Rosenzweig.
Download or read book The Canon Debate written by Lee Martin McDonald and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to speak of a "canon" of scripture? How, when, and where did the canon of the Hebrew Bible come into existence? Why does it have three divisions? What canon was in use among the Jews of the Hellenistic diaspora? At Qumran? In Roman Palestine? Among the rabbis? What Bible did Jesus and his disciples know and use? How was the New Testament canon formed and closed? What role was played by Marcion? By gnostics? By the church fathers? What did the early church make of the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha? By what criteria have questions of canonicity been decided? Are these past decisions still meaningful faith communities today? Are they open to revision? These and other debated questions are addressed by an international roster of outstanding experts on early Judaism and early Christianity, writing from diverse affiliations and perspectives, who present the history of discussion and offer their own assessments of the current status. Contributors William Adler, Peter Balla, John Barton, Joseph Blenkinsopp, François Bovon, Kent D. Clarke, Philip R. Davies, James D. G. Dunn, Eldon Jay Epp, Craig A. Evans, William R. Farmer, Everett Ferguson, Robert W. Funk, Harry Y. Gamble, Geoffrey M. Hahneman, Daniel J. Harrington, Everett R. Kalin, Robert A. Kraft, Jack P. Lewis, Jack N. Lightstone, Steve Mason, Lee M. McDonald, Pheme Perkins, James A. Sanders, Daryl D. Schmidt, Albert C. Sundberg Jr., Emanuel Tov, Julio Trebolle-Barrera, Eugene Ulrich, James C. VanderKam, Robert W. Wall.
Download or read book From Sacred Story to Sacred Text written by James A. Sanders and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-06-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
