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PHall | August 31, 2024
An ethical dilemma is commonly presented to college students. A runaway train is on course to collide with and kill 5 people down the track, but a bystander can intervene and divert the train resulting in killing just one person on a different track. What choice should be made? 1. Do nothing and let 5 […]
PHall | August 22, 2024
What’s the very first biblical argument against “Once Saved Always Saved”? I get little smiles when I take so many things back to Genesis 1-3, but here I go again! While Adam and Eve didn’t need to be saved before Genesis 3, we can all admit that they gained life from God as a […]
PHall | March 18, 2024
Is Humility the Solution to Anxiety? Is a solution to worry, humility? Is pride a cause of anxiety? Seeing how a text is structured can yield unexpected truths. Notice how 1 Peter 5:5-7 has sets of opposites presented in Step Parallelism: STRUCTURE OF TEXT: • A1 – HUMILITY TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER – And all of […]
PHall | March 18, 2024
What Comes Out Our Mouths What’s the first thing to come out of your mouth if, while holding a nail, you hit your thumb with a hammer? 1. Cuss words? 2. Name calling (i.e., “Perry, you’re such a clumsy idiot!”)? 3. Shifting Blame to others (i.e., “You must have given me a bad nail!”)? 4. […]
PHall | March 18, 2024
A New Bible Manuscript: Americanicus Recently a new manuscript has been discovered which can be added to the Sinaiticus and Vanticanus. It reads very much the same but does have a few major differences: Matthew 18:7 – Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but […]
PHall | March 18, 2024
I just discovered that I do not have to honor my wife when she is wrong, despite 1 Peter 3:7 saying I am to honor my wife as a co-heir of the grace of life. Here is the argument: 1. God said to honor your wives (1 Peter 3:7). 2. God also said to honor […]
PHall | March 6, 2024
I’ve long believed the emphasis on “desire” is connected to the deeper question of spiritual maturity, which does not allow mere external circumstances or influences* to discourage or impede one’s appointment. * Examples: 1. I just can’t do the job (you are not doing it by yourself; it’s not about you, at all); 2. I don’t […]
PHall | March 1, 2024
Why Live Holy Lives? “Be holy for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16) is enough reason to be holy. However, Peter expands in chapter 2 other reasons, both inwardly spiritual and outwardly focused: 1. Because we have been born again – 2:1 2. To grow into our salvation – 2:2 3. Proof we have tasted […]
PHall | March 1, 2024
Peter and Paul’s Different Reasoning for Us Submitting to Government Authorities Both Peter and Paul argue that as Christians we are to submit to governmental authorities. And while there are similarities in their instructions, when we ask, “How does this submitting to governmental authorities fit into the themes of each book?” And, “Why do these […]
PHall | March 1, 2024
A – GENERAL – 2:11-12 B – RULE – GOVERNMENT – 2:13-17 C – SUBJECT – HOUSESLAVES – 2:18-20 D – EXAMPLE – CHRIST – 2:21-25 C’ – SUBJECT – WIVES – 3:1-6 B’ – RULE – HUSBANDS – 3:7 A’ – GENERAL – 3:8-12