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| bio | website | facebook.com/joseph.lukowski |
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| location | San Antonio, Texas | |
| age | 47 | |
| visits | member for | 5 months |
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I live and work in San Antonio, Texas.
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May 10 |
answered | What does it mean that the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John the Baptist? |
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May 10 |
answered | What is the significance of the floating ax head in 2 Kings 6:1-7? |
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May 9 |
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What is the significance of the young man who runs away naked in Mark's gospel? Is there any parallel of the shame of disobedient man in the Garden of Eden to the nakedness in the Garden of Gethsemane? In other words, is the introduction of shame somehow relevant to the Garden of Gethsemane? Within the Garden of Gethsemane is the obedience of Jesus to die on the cross somehow emphasized when drawn in contradistinction to this shamefulness (uncovering of nakedness)? The contradistinction of shame versus obedience in both gardens is found in Rom 5:18-19. Is the parallel relevant? |
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May 9 |
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Why does Jesus tell his mother his “hour has not yet come”? Do you see any parallel or significance to the first miracle of Moses, when he turned water into blood? |
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May 8 |
answered | Why did Paul collect and deliver an offering for the Jerusalem church? |
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May 7 |
answered | Why does Luke associate the birth of Christ with the census conducted by Quirinus? |
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May 7 |
revised |
What significance does John perceive in the piercing of Christ's side and the flow of blood and water? added 1269 characters in body |
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May 7 |
answered | What significance does John perceive in the piercing of Christ's side and the flow of blood and water? |
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May 3 |
answered | What's wrong with cooking a kid in its mother's milk? |
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May 3 |
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Does the “fear of death” in Hebrews 2:15 refer to the dread of physically dying, or to something else? So you agree, by and large, that unbelievers live under the cloud of their inevitable physical death, and the dread of their death is what makes them slaves in this life. |
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May 3 |
answered | What does it mean to be “born of water”? |
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May 2 |
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Does the “fear of death” in Hebrews 2:15 refer to the dread of physically dying, or to something else? There is the parallel of slavery to life and to death in Rom 6:15-18. In that context, life is not physiological life, but spiritual life; and death is not physiological death, but spiritual death. Paul highlights the slavery to spiritual life and to spiritual death, respectively. Do you think that the context in Heb 2:15 could be referring to slavery to spiritual death? In other words, there is the fear of God (slavery to righteousness) and the fear of death (slavery to unrighteousness). Do you see the parallel? Fear therefore is subjugation - either to spiritual life, or to spiritual death. |
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May 2 |
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Does the “fear of death” in Hebrews 2:15 refer to the dread of physically dying, or to something else? pls see my comment to "Mike." Do you see the use of "fear" in Eph 5:21 as bearing on the use of "fear" in Heb 2:15? In other words, if "fear" is the subjectivity to the power of love (in Eph 5:21), then could the slavery in Heb 2:15 be referring to subjectivity to the power of spiritual death (as opposed to bodily death)? Most interpreters take the reference to death in Heb 2:15 as meaning the death of the body, but do you think there is room to interpret "death" here to mean spiritual death instead? That is, unbelievers are subject to the slavery of the power of spiritual death? |
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May 2 |
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Does the “fear of death” in Hebrews 2:15 refer to the dread of physically dying, or to something else? Do you see fear of death in this context as physical death or spiritual death? If spiritual death, what meaning would fear take? Please see Eph 5:21 for an alternative use of "fear." In other words, could the term "fear of death" in Heb 2:15 mean that unbelievers are subject to slavery because of the power of the sphere of spiritual death? In Eph 5:21 we see the use of the word "fear" to mean subjectivity to the power of the love of Christ (spiritual life). In Heb 2:15, that "fear" is subjectivity to the power of spiritual death. "Fear" is thus what subjugates. What are your thoughts? |
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Apr 28 |
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How strong was Midian's army? Moshe sent the force, and they defeated Midian. When the next episode of war occurred with Midian (with Gideon), the arbitrary assignment of forces was not allowed. At that time, if he used ALL his forces, Gideon was outnumbered 17 to 4. If that ratio was "bad" (since the Israelites could claim victory by their own strength at those ratios), and we calculate that ratio to the 12,000 Moshe used, then Midian had a force of 50,000 opposed to Moshe (17 to 4 ratio). That was the "bad" ratio. The "good" ratio was 450:1, which pitted 300 of Gideon's men against 135,000 Midianites. God got the credit. |
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Apr 28 |
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How strong was Midian's army? Gideon is the only other episode of war with the Midianites. The reduction in forces (to 300 men) was intended to preclude any inference that the Israelites could take the credit for the victory over Midian (Judg 7:2). Gideon could have used 32K of his men (Judg 7:3) to take on 135K Midianites (Judg 8:10). Under those circumstances, the odds would be 17:4 in favor of the Midianites. That ratio had to be "reduced" to 450:1, in order for God to claim the credit --thus Gideon's army of 300 men. So, if we assumed the same 17:4 ratio with Moses, then Moses faced 50K Midianites with 12K Israelites. |
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Apr 27 |
answered | How strong was Midian's army? |
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Apr 25 |
awarded | Student |
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Apr 25 |
revised |
Does the “fear of death” in Hebrews 2:15 refer to the dread of physically dying, or to something else? added 91 characters in body |
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Apr 25 |
asked | Does the “fear of death” in Hebrews 2:15 refer to the dread of physically dying, or to something else? |
