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Bible Study Summaries
Bible Study Summaries Each Tuesday evening TruthWHYS holds a Bible study at 7 PM. Topics in the past have included the book of Romans, Biblical Egalitarianism, and the book of Hebrews. Currently, we are studying the book of Revelation. If you are in the Greenville, SC area and would like to share in… Read more
Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 09) - First Timothy 2
To begin our discussion of I Timothy 2, we need to become acquainted somewhat with the setting. Paul is writing to Timothy who is in Ephesus. Paul’s specific purpose in writing is revealed in chapter 1, verses 3 and 4. He says, “As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus that… Read more
About Us
About Us The purpose of TruthWHYS is, as the name implies, to determine, deliver, and defend the reasons (the WHYs) for the truths of God and his Word-the Bible. At TruthWHYS we cling to the Word of God as the defining and bounding authority for our faith and practice. Our Statement of Core Beliefs… Read more
Matthew (Part 05) - Baptism
Would it be permissible to baptize yourself? After all, isn’t baptism your own public profession? Why do you need someone else assisting? Although it may seem plausible, self-baptism does not follow the examples we have in Scripture. From the very first encounter with baptism in the New Testament,… Read more
Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 08) - Ephesians 5
The book of Ephesians is divided evenly into two parts. In the first three chapters, Paul discusses our position in Christ, and in the second three, we learn how to live based on that position. Chapter 5—located in the heart of the section on learning how to live—emphasizes the love that should characterize… Read more
Matthew (Part 12) - Separation
Having had time to reflect a little more since the last summary, I have tweaked the definition of the gospel just a bit. The NT presents the gospel as the good news that the God-man Jesus Christ, through his sinless life, sacrificial death, and resurrection to life, accomplished our redemption from… Read more
Revelation (Part 04) - Daniel's Blessing
The structure of the book of Daniel complements its prophetic message. Many scholars divide the book between the narrative chapters (1-6) and the vision chapters (7-12). This simple division, however, has a problem in that it obscures another natural division that seems to have more instructional… Read more
Hebrews (Part 07) – The Order of Melchizedek
Bible teachers have a habit of making lists and charts and sometimes forcing numbers and elements into preconceived patterns. I have tried to make certain that my organization here is something that leaps out from Scripture rather than is constrained onto Scripture. These four elements do, indeed,… Read more
Revelation (Part 24) – Chapter 12: The Woman and her Offspring…
Perhaps the reason that there is some disagreement about the identity of the woman in Revelation 12 is because she appears in the chapter both before and after Christ’s earthly ministry. Christ comes from the woman, surely showing her to be Israel. Yet, following Christ’s ascension she continues to… Read more
Matthew (Part 24) - Peter the Rock
Back when they had arrived on the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee and Jesus had told his disciples to beware the leaven of the Pharisees, the disciples misinterpreted. And Jesus said that they misinterpreted because of their little faith. We should try to understand what’s happening here through… Read more
Matthew (Part 29) - Laborers in the Vineyard
Jesus, his disciples, and several others are journeying south along the main road just east of the Jordan River. They are headed to Jerusalem for the Passover. Their discussions so far (as Matthew presents it) have all been on the same theme—a combination of recognition of the equality of all believers… Read more
Matthew (Part 26) - Temple Tax and Greatness
The last incident related in Matthew 17 provides us with a significant clue about the timing of the event. Verse 24 of that chapter informs us that collectors of the annual half shekel tax were about their duty. The half-shekel tax has its origin in Exodus 30. In that passage Moses is on the mountain… Read more
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Matthew (Part 13) - Miracles
As we return to the book of Matthew, we must make sure we keep a tight hold on the major concepts of our last two discussions. I will repeat them again because the more we see them and read through them, the more we may think of them, realizing that they are concepts that should lie at the basis of… Read more
Romans (Part 06b) - Covenant Theology
I wanted to talk about Covenant Theology before continuing in Romans so as to establish a framework for some of the things we had focused on in the first six chapters as well as for upcoming discussions in the middle chapters of Romans. My definition of a biblical covenant is this: an absolute relational… Read more
Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 01) - The Creation Accounts
Why a study about women? In many conservative Christian circles, the mere mention that we are undertaking a consideration of women in ministry may be met with disapproval. “The Bible is clear,” so they say. Even merely looking into the issue is considered by some to be teetering on the brink of heresy… Read more
Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 07) - Head-coverings
To be perfectly clear, I want to add to our discussion of the questionable doctrine of the eternal subordination of the Son – that doctrine which patriarchal complementarians (PCs) insist upon. The Trinity is always a difficult subject because we will never really get our heads around it, at least,… Read more
Matthew (Part 07) - The Beatitudes
Most Bible scholars will offer Luke 6 as the parallel passage for Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount. But there are notable differences. The first is that in 6:7 Luke tells us Christ came down from a mountain and stood on a “level place.” We could surmise that once finished with healing, he retreated back… Read more
Matthew (Part 09) - Pursuing the Kingdom
The next (and last) major section of Christ’s mountain sermon begins in summary fashion. We are told in verse 19-20 that we should not lay up treasures on earth, but rather lay them up in heaven. By now we should recognize that the heaven-earth antithesis speaks of the heart attitude difference between… Read more
Romans (Part 08) - Chapter 8
The first two verses of Romans 8 actually conclude the thought of Romans 7. In chapter 7, Paul has lamented the fact that although we died in/with Christ (Romans 6:3)—which means we are both dead to sin (6:2) and dead to the law (7:4)—he still finds that “the evil [he does] not want is what [he keeps… Read more
Matthew (Part 11) - The Gospel of the Kingdom
We will put aside our march through Matthew for a moment in order to ensure understanding of certain common Christian terms related to our study in Matthew and also to their relevance in practical application with events of today. The words Heaven, Hell, Kingdom, Hope, and Gospel are quite familiar… Read more
Revelation (Part 11) – The Beast(s)
The first century AD was a time of transition from old covenant to New Covenant. Of course, the transition was focused on the death and resurrection of Christ; however, the entire century encompassed events highlighting that transition. Those transitional events can be viewed as a chiasm: Christ’… Read more
Matthew (Part 18) - Rectifying Pharisaical Thinking
That the Pharisees, in all their pompous piety, extended an accusatory finger to Christ and declared his righteous act of mercy exorcising the demon to be powered by Satan himself, must have been received in the heart of Jesus with something more than passive indifference. Last time we noticed that… Read more
Matthew (Part 17) - The Unpardonable Sin
What is the unpardonable sin? Reading Matthew 12:31 we learn that the unpardonable sin is “blasphemy against the Spirit.” But that may not have helped clear up the issue in our minds. What exactly is blasphemy against the Spirit? As always, to come up with an answer, we have to understand the passage… Read more
Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 02) - The Fall and its Consequences…
Patriarchal Complementarians (PCs) often argue that the creation accounts support the idea that God established the man to be the authority in the church and home. Bruce Ware, professor of Christian Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has developed a list of 10 reasons affirming… Read more
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