by Marcello | Aug 27, 2018 | Creation Care
PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE PART SIX 6. Conclusions In summary, in this essay I have argued that 1 Timothy 4 is simply reiterating the teachings of traditional Judaism about the goodness of God’s creation, marriage and the body. It does this...
by Marcello | Aug 20, 2018 | Creation Care
PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE Last week in Part Five, we learned about how the Jewish Tradition has understood the blessing of food before meals. We learned that in the “Jewish tradition meat and fish, together with animal foods, come last in...
by Marcello | Aug 13, 2018 | Creation Care
PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE We left off in Part Four discussing whereby when God created each part of the creation he saw that “it was good.” The light, the land, the vegetation and seed bearing plants/trees, the heavens, every living...
by Marcello | Aug 5, 2018 | Creation Care
PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR 3. The Goodness of Creation After having condemned asceticism, Paul goes on to counter the teaching of the proto-Gnostics in regard to creation. Sadly, once again the older translations, while excellent, like the KJV and even YLT...
by Marcello | Jul 29, 2018 | Creation Care
We left off in Part Two where Marcello is discussing asceticism, that it is often a subset of legalism and alloyed with it; but though it is normal that they would appear together, they must be distinguished from each other, they are not the same thing. PART ONE PART...
