Recently, I listened to a sermon in which the preacher had three main points.
Point 1. ”God, the Father.” 2. “God, the Son.” 3. “God, the Holy Spirit.”
Having studied these thoughts for many years, I naturally was quite interested in what he had to say about “God, the Son.” To begin with, this wording does not [...]
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In writing the Corinthian letter, Paul stated that God made Christ “who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). The original text simply reads: ”The one who knew no sin, he made sin on our behalf,…” The context makes it [...]
The word reconciliation implies there is a problem and something must be done to make things right. In 2 Corinthians, chapter five, Paul is discussing how God has arranged to reconcile the human race to Himself. In v.19 he states “that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.”
To paraphrase v.17, he says that [...]
