PerryDox – BeJustAChristian

PHall | May 6, 2014

To be saved hear, believe, repent, confess and be baptized; then keep confessing, keep repenting, keep believing, and keep hearing to stay saved.

Category: Acts | Comments Off on Acts 2:38 – Chiasm on Salvation
Tags: Baptism, Chiasm, Denominationalism

PHall | October 31, 2013

A – 11.1 – David not at war B – 11.2-5 – Bathsheba washing and purifying herself, pregnant. C – 11.6-27 – Uriah dies D – 12.1-4 – Parable D’ – 12.5-15a – Parable Explained C’ – 12.15b-19 – Baby dies B’ – 12.20-25 – David washing and anointing himself, Bathsheba pregnant A’ 12.26-31 – […]

Category: Bible | Comments Off on 2 Samuel 11-12 – David and Bathsheba Narrative Chiasm
Tags: Chiasm

PHall | June 12, 2013

What does Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 11:19 – “There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.” Is this approval right and good? Or, is Paul again using sarcasm? Using the chiastic structure to interpret consider the latter. A – (17) Now in giving the […]

Category: I Corinthians | Comments Off on 1 Corinthians 11:19 – Chiasm – Are these factions approved?
Tags: Chiasm

PHall | February 21, 2013

For those interested in chiasms, I purposely wrote this perryism chiastically: (A) Unfortunately; (B) what others say; (C) about the Bible; (C’) becomes the Bible (B’); to others (A’) unfortunately.

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Tags: Chiasm, Perryisms

PHall | February 19, 2013

Luke 16:13 (HCSB) A – No household slave can be the slave of two masters, B – since either he will hate one C – and love the other, C’ – or he will be devoted to one B’ – and despise the other. C’ – You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”

Category: Matthew, Luke | Comments Off on Luke 16:13; Matthew 6:24 – Chiasm
Tags: Chiasm

PHall | December 30, 2012

A – 1. At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain. 2. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath! ” B – […]

Category: Matthew | Comments Off on Matthew 12: 1-8 – Chiasm
Tags: Chiasm

PHall | November 8, 2012

A – (6)  Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us. B – (7)  For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, C – […]

Category: Bible | Comments Off on 2 Thessalonians 3:6-14 – Chiasm
Tags: Chiasm, Church Discipline

PHall | October 24, 2012

Share with me your thoughts as to which of these two chiasms works better, or share yours, or state there is no chiastic structure. Chiasm #1 A – Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, B – To the land which I […]

Category: Bible | Comments Off on Genesis 12:1-4 – Chiasm
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PHall | September 25, 2012

Right in the middle of instructing concerning spiritual gifts (1 Cor.12,14), Paul speaks most eloquently of love (1 Cor.13). Right in the middle of speaking of love (13:1-8; 13:13), Paul speaks of spiritual gifts (13:8-12). Did Paul just get disorganized or go on a tangent? This might be an example of chiastic structure. A – […]

Category: I Corinthians | Comments Off on 1 Corinthians 11-14 – Chiasm
Tags: Chiasm

PHall | July 21, 2012

This Perryism is actually a chiasm: A – Self-control; B – Not needed; C – When we; D – Want to obey; C’ – Why we; B’ – Need; A’ – Self-control Plus, within this Perryism there is a  PerryDox (i.e., paradox).  If self-control is not needed when we want to obey then we need […]

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Tags: Chiasm