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Proposition: There is a way to God which doesn’t involve knowing anything at all about Jesus and God’s promises. Christians buck at that, and not without good reason. Tough break, little old lady in Fiji who lived and died 10,000 years ago? Or was God, despite her ignorance, working in her...

What is the hope (Is there any hope?) for those who - like the hypothetical little old lady in Fiji exercise - lived and died without knowing anything at all about God, or Jesus, or the Bible? Will they simply be lost, thrown in the lake of fire, because they were born in a place and time of...

I don’t disagree with any of that, and I suspect Porphyry himself heard something very much like it from the Christians whom he encountered in the 3rd century. What does it say, though, about the fate of those who lived and died before the Messiah was sent and never heard anything at all about...

I’m still hanging in there with your train of thought, JustMe. Let me give you a hypothetical that is used in many seminary and Bible college classrooms. It is sometimes called “The Little Old Lady in Fiji” exercise, and it goes something like this: There once was a little old lady who lived...

Very good. I’m thinking along the same lines, JustMe. What about those who had never even heard God’s promises?

“E. Jude’s Use of This Tradition. The critical expression ouk etolmesen krisin epenengkein blasphemias literally means ‘he did not dare to bring a judgment of slander,’ and it could be taken two ways. It could be rendered ‘he did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation’ against the devil...

“If Christ declares himself to be the way of salvation, the grace and truth, and affirms that in him alone, and only to souls believing in him, is the way of return to God, what has become of the men who lived in the many centuries before Christ came?” What do you say to this ancient (3rd...

Now that we know the backstory on Jude and the additional reliable detail it provides, we can go back to Deuteronomy 34. ”So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word. He buried him in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where the...

”C. The Context in Judaism. The incident that Jude (9) describes we know about from the church fathers, beginning with Clement of Alexandria (Fragments on the Epistle of Jude), who claims that Jude is quoting Assumption of Moses, an apocryphal work. But no extant manuscript preserves the story...

“D. Textual Matters. Since we do not have the original source of the narrative, close textual comparisons are impossible.” (Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson, Editors, p. 1075)

”B. OT Context. The short comment is that there is no OT context. When the burial of Moses is described (Deut. 34:1-8), no mention is made of Michael or the devil. Michael the archangel is mentioned only in Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1. The words quoted at the end of the verse, however, and placed on...

* Some of my worst memories with Dad, too. *

* Will you look at the date on that catalogue. Maybe that’s why we never got anything we circled. *

* I can still hear the distinct sound it made just looking at the picture. Music to my ears. … and the only musical instrument I learned to play. *

* Granny is gaming the system. *