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Pip: Lorenzo Palon writes about the kind of Bible verses that look like they're arguing with each other — and it turns out the resolution requires actually reading both of them. Mara: That's the territory today: how God speaks across the Old and New Testaments, and what a careful Trinitarian reading does to apparent contradictions…
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Jesus didn’t merely fulfil a list of isolated predictions. He brought Israel’s promises, patterns, covenant hopes, suffering, kingship, temple, and new-creation hope to their intended climax.
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The book of Job doesn’t give us a simple formula explaining human suffering. Instead, it exposes the cruelty of blaming sufferers, defends honest lament, and reveals a God whose wisdom exceeds our limited understanding.
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The Bible speaks to Christians today, but we aren’t its original audience. Faithful interpretation begins in the ancient world of the text, follows the biblical story to Christ, and only then asks how Scripture addresses the church today.
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Colossians 4:2 gives us a powerful theology of prayer: continue earnestly, stay spiritually watchful, and pray with thanksgiving. Biblical prayer is not a last resort but the daily posture of a life dependent on God.
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Biblical exegesis is not about forcing our ideas into Scripture. It is the disciplined practice of listening carefully to the text, respecting context, genre, history, and the whole biblical story fulfilled in Christ.
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When God calls Egypt “my people,” Isaiah confronts our instinct to divide the world into “us” and “them.” God judges every nation’s pride and injustice, yet his mercy reaches people we may be tempted to dismiss as enemies.
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Joshua’s conquest narratives are difficult and often misused in modern political conflict. Christians must read them within Israel’s covenantal story and through the cross of Christ. The promised land is never a blank cheque for conquest, displacement, or religious nationalism. Jesus calls His church to pursue truth, justice, mercy, and the healing of the nations.