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PHall | September 17, 2024
Genesis 3:15 is not the first mention of “seed” in Genesis. Notice this pattern: 1:11 – “seed according to its kinds” 1:12 – “seed according to its kinds” When we get to Genesis 3:15 notice this pattern continues: 3:15 – “I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her […]
PHall | September 4, 2024
Temptation is often divided into three parts: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life.(1 John 2:16). This is a proper way of viewing temptation. This is proper, but it is limited because it applies to us tempting ourselves: OUR flesh, OUR eyes, OUR pride. Temptation also involves how we view God. […]
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 […]