Sorry for the week-long absence of posts. I was out of town, and it was logistically difficult to get enough Internet time to add posts. But we return to our series on law-gospel issues, addressing the second question from my Romans 9:30-10:13 paper. 2. According to Romans 9:31-33 and 10:2-3, what was Israel’s problem? The first option is that Israel’s problem is not vertical (i.e., a legalistic pursuit of law-keeping to earn right standing before God) but rather horizontal. Dunn suggests that the Jews “confused the law and the righteousness it speaks of with works like circumcision which … [Read more...] about Law and Gospel – Part III
Archives for June 2007
Law and Gospel – Part II
Continuing this series from the last post, here is my response to the first question (I have footnotes in the paper that do not transfer into this post): 1. What does it mean that the Gentiles have attained righteousness (Rom. 9:30)? Some think that “attained righteousness” means that the Gentiles gained entrance into the covenant community of God by faith in Jesus the Messiah and apart from the distinctively Jewish works such as circumcision, food laws, and Sabbath. The emphasis is not on how individual sinners are made right with a holy God but rather on how the locus of God’s covenant … [Read more...] about Law and Gospel – Part II
Law and Gospel – Part I
Since I'm reading about law and gospel, I'm going to do a series of posts from my Romans 9:30-10:13 paper. This is a paper in which we were asked to answer five questions: 1. What does it mean that the Gentiles have attained righteousness (9:30)? 2. According to Romans 9:31-33 and 10:2-3, what was Israel’s problem? 3. How should the two occurrences of “righteousness of God” in Romans 10:3 be defined (and translated)? 4. What does it mean that Christ is the τέλος of the law (10:4)? 5. Does Paul draw a contrast or comparison between Romans 10:5 and 10:6-8? What is the significance of … [Read more...] about Law and Gospel – Part I
Wilson vs. Hitchens
Though I only read parts of it, I thought that Pastor Doug Wilson did a masterful job debating atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of the recent book God is not Great, which argues that religion has been bad for the world). Wilson employs presuppositional apologetics with the rhetorical style of a C.S. Lewis. A great combo. Christianity Today hosted the debate, and my friend Joe Rigney sent me this PDF version. … [Read more...] about Wilson vs. Hitchens
D.A. Carson Sermon MP3s – topically arranged
Andy Naselli has gathered a plethora of D.A. Carson sermon MP3s, topically arranged. Thanks Andy! What a blessing! (HT: JT) … [Read more...] about D.A. Carson Sermon MP3s – topically arranged
Galatians and the New Perspective
We just finished our fantastic week-long course on Galatians with Dr. Tom Schreiner. What a blast! And thoroughly exhausting. Chapters 2 and 3 seem to be the toughest, and I've got sections of commentaries by Dunn, Witherington, Fung, Longenecker, F.F. Bruce, Burton, along with articles by Doug Moo, Schreiner, and Andrew Cowan to digest. I also plan to get N.T. Wright's Paul in Fresh Perspective from the library, and some of Frank Thielman's works. If I can get an ILL copy of Ciampa's Ph.D. work in time, I'll try to skim that too (Thanks for the heads up, Johnathan). I'd appreciate any … [Read more...] about Galatians and the New Perspective