The tension: Matthew 28:19 places baptism at the center of the risen Jesus' Great Commission to the eleven — go, make disciples, baptize them in the triune name.
The tension: Colossians 3:22-23 and 1 Peter 2:18 command slaves to obey their earthly masters in all things, with fear and sincerity of heart, including "froward" (harsh) m…
The tension: Proverbs 11:31 declares that the righteous are recompensed in the earth — "much more the wicked and the sinner." The traditional Deuteronomic-Wisdom theology u…
The tension: Job 3, Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, and Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 articulate a thoroughgoing annihilationist anthropology — the dead know nothing, all go to dust, man has…
The tension: James 1:2 tells believers to count it all joy when they fall into various peirasmoi — testings or temptations — because the testing of faith produces endurance.
The tension: Matthew 11:2-5 has Jesus point to his miracles — blind seeing, lame walking, lepers cleansed, deaf hearing, dead raised — as the answer to John the Baptist's q…
