Monthly Archives: October 2016

bible blog 1996

ROMANS 4: 13-25 It was not through the Jewish Law that the promise was made to Abraham or his offspring of  inheriting the world, but through the justice of trust, for if inheritance comes through the Law, trust is empty and the promise is void. (The Law produces God’s anger, but if there’s no Law, there’s no deviation.) […]

bible blog 1995

ROMANS 4 So how will I speak about what my genetic forefather Abraham has found? For if Abraham became a just man by his own work he has reasons for self- promotion (although not in God’s court!). What does Scripture say? Abraham put his trust in God and it was added to his account as […]

bible blog 1994

ROMANS 1-3 TRANSLATED MIKE MAIR 2016 From Paul, a slave of Jesus Messiah, called as an Emissary and set apart as a preacher of the Joyful News that God had announced earlier through his prophets in the holy writings: about his Son.  A flesh and blood descendant of King David, he was installed in power […]