An interesting opine: Why Religious Leaders Opposed Jesus Christ

Encountering page 112.

ELWELL, WALTER AND YARBROUGH, ROBERT W., Third Edition (2013) Encountering The New Testament, Grand Rapids, Baker Academic.

Encountering page 112

An interesting opine: Why Religious Leaders Opposed Jesus. Over the years I have read and heard various premises, but this is the first graphic of this type for this subject, I have viewed.

This is non-exhaustive:

The Jewish religious leaders opposed the claims of Messiaship and the deity of Jesus Christ.

The Roman state, opposed the claims of Jesus Christ as the King of the Kingdom of God.

Satan and satanic beings opposed the Kingdom of God and God's salvific plans for humanity and any divine plans for a restored creation.

I am a somewhat surprised the graphic does not mention that the Jewish religious leaders would oppose any implied claims of deity from Jesus Christ. such as being the eternal Word of God (John 1) and being eternal (John 8).

Jesus Christ accepted himself as being the Son of God in the gospels. Browning states that the term Son of God may mean a pre-existent divine being that lived as Jesus Christ. (349). Based on Browning's perspective, some Jewish religious leaders may have reasoned Jesus Christ accepting the title Son of God, as equaling divinity.

The Scripture, classically documents that the Jews understood what Jesus Christ meant. So, Browning's wording is not strong enough.

John 10:30-33

New American Standard Bible (NASB) 30 I and the Father are [a]one.” 31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” 33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.” 

Footnotes: John 10:30 Or a unity; or one essence

It is New Testament and classic Christian theology the Son of God is the second person of the Trinity (Matthew 28) Romans 1 states Jesus Christ is the Son of God in power and is the Lord.

Crucially, even as God incarnate, Jesus Christ did not state to the religious leaders directly, 'I am God! or 'I am the second person of the Trinity!' He applied this theology and his New Testament scribes and apostles taught it as essential doctrine.

Encountering page 10.

I have shared this graphic previously in archives. There are approximately 5, 000 New Testament manuscripts. The consistency of the Greek manuscripts supports the validity of the documented religious history.

BROWNING, W.R.F. (1997) Dictionary of the Bible, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

ELWELL, WALTER AND YARBROUGH, ROBERT W., Third Edition (2013) Encountering The New Testament, Grand Rapids, Baker Academic.

Buzzsharer.com:These look like my former pets, but Rebel the dog would never allow this from Muffin the cat. If he would have, I would have facilitated. That may be a female German Shepherd treating the kitten in a motherly fashion in toleration, but not feeding the kitten.

1 Timothy 3 v. Titus 1: Overseer Qualifications

page 319

ELWELL, WALTER AND YARBROUGH, ROBERT W., Third Edition (2013) Encountering The New Testament, Grand Rapids, Baker Academic.

For the previous 'Titus' entry, yesterday, I searched through the 'Encountering' text and viewed this interesting graphic within the section Thessalonians, Timothy, and Titus

I agree with the author's that there is theological consistency.

Titus 3: 5-7: Regeneration

Baltinglass Abbey, Ireland

Titus 3: 5-7: Regeneration

Non-exhaustive, revised article for an entry on academica.edu, January 16, 2023

Titus 3:5-7

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs [a]according to the hope of eternal life.

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Strong 3824

παλιγγενεσιας 

'Strong's Concordance paliggenesia: regeneration, renewal 

Original Word: παλιγγενεσία, ας, ἡ 

Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: paliggenesia

Phonetic Spelling: (pal-ing-ghen-es-ee'-ah)

Short Definition: a new birth, regeneration 

Definition: a new birth, regeneration, renewal.'

From Titus 3: 5

The main text

Spiritual rebirth (figurative), spiritual regeneration (figurative). (72).

Being spiritually transformed by God, to be in relationship, fellowship with God through the applied atoning and resurrection work of Jesus Christ. Spiritually enlightened by the triune God in order to accept the salvific work of God. The Father sends, the Son completes the atoning and resurrection work and the Holy Spirit regenerates and yet the trinity is of one infinite, eternal essence and works together in unity.

Greek scholar Bauer documents this as:

The rebirth of the redeemed person. (606). The regeneration and rebirth via the Holy Spirit. (606).

Greek New Testament:  With five Greek manuscript versions there is agreement on: παλιγγενεσιας 

Abarim Publications

Cited παλιγγενεσιας 

of rebirth noun

Commentaries

Pastor Courson explains that those in Christ have been 'washed and renewed' (1424), not because of our own human righteousness, but because of the work of Jesus Christ. (1424). We have been renewed and washed. (1424). Washing is symbolic, in part at least through baptism, in my view. Although there is the idea of being cleansed of sin through the sanctification process.

Nute suggests in his commentary that washing is the cleansing in the new birth. (1496). And this may include the thought of baptism as a symbol of cleansing. (1496). The Pocket Dictionary defines regeneration as rebirth or re-creation as in being born again. (101). But salvation does include legal justification and the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ to believers, and as well, sanctification.

Theology

John Murray (1937-1966)(1977) explains that the Holy Spirit ‘summons men into union and fellowship with his Son so that, united to him in whom all spiritual blessings are treasured, they come to possess Christ and all that belongs to him in his capacity as Saviour and Redeemer.’ Murray (1937-1966)(1977: 167). Regeneration takes place which is a powerful change in the human being via the Holy Spirit, Murray (1937-1966)(1977: 171) which transforms one corrupt and in sin in opposition to God, to one pleasing to God and trusting in God. 

There is ‘no compulsion of the will in regeneration.’ states Shedd. Shedd (1874-1890)(1980: 136-137 Volume 2). Calvin reasons that a person is not forced or coerced to believe in the gospel. Calvin (1543)(1996: 68). I would view conversion as taking place simultaneously with regeneration in a person, although I firmly state that God alone via the Holy Spirit causes the regeneration process. (In agreement with Murray (1937-1966)(1977: 172)) This means as God chooses to regenerate a person he simultaneously persuades one to freely believe. Salvation remains alone a work of God.

BAUER, WALTER. (1979) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, Translated by Eric H. Wahlstrom, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.

CALVIN, JOHN (1539)(1998) The Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book II, Translated by Henry Beveridge, Grand Rapids, The Christian Classic Ethereal Library, Wheaton College. 

CALVIN, JOHN (1539)(1998) The Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book IV, Translated by Henry Beveridge, Grand Rapids, The Christian Classic Ethereal Library, Wheaton College. 

CALVIN, JOHN (1543)(1996) The Bondage and Liberation of the Will, Translated by G.I. Davies, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House. 

COURSON, JON (2005) Application Commentary, Thomas Nelson, Nashville.

GRENZ, STANLEY J., DAVID GURETZKI AND CHERITH FEE NORDLING (1999) Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms, Downers Grove, Ill., InterVarsity Press.

KIERKEGAARD, SOREN (1847-1848)(1955)(1966) On Authority and Revelation, Translated by Walter Lowrie, New York, Harper and Row, Publishers, Incorporated. 

KIERKEGAARD, SOREN (1848-1849)(1961) Christian Discourses & The Lilies of the Field and The Birds of the Air & Three Discourses at The Communion on Fridays, Translated by Walter Lowrie, New York, Oxford University Press.

MURRAY, JOHN (1937-1966)(1977) Collected Writings of John Murray, Vol. 2: Select Lectures in Systematic Theology, Edinburgh, The Banner of Truth Trust.

NUTE, ALAN G. (1986) in 'Titus', The International Bible Commentary, F.F. Bruce, General Editor, Grand Rapids, Zondervan/Marshall Pickering.

SHEDD, WILLIAM G.T. (1874-1890)(1980) Dogmatic Theology, Volume 1, Nashville, Thomas Nelson Publishers. 

SHEDD, WILLIAM G.T. (1874-1890)(1980) Dogmatic Theology, Volume 2, Nashville, Thomas Nelson Publishers. 

STRONG, J. (1890)(1986) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Pickering, Ontario, Welch Publishing Company.

WEBER, OTTO (1955)(1981) Foundations of Dogmatics, Volumes 1 and 2, Translated and annotated by Darrell L. Guder, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

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Miracle on 224th Street: The Revenge of Chucky v. The Cousin's Buff

 Five minute walk from Chucky, fifteen from mine & also Buff's.

Miracle on 224th Street: The Revenge of Chucky v. The Cousin's Buff

Walking downtown to my fine Indian barber, she has several business neighbours celebrating Christmas in Maple Ridge.

Yet another Canadian-American, Christmas on 224th Street, classic. Of course in the fictional world it will be in America.

The Universe of Classes

LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York.

≡df = Equivalence by definition
: = Equal (s)
ε = Epsilon and means is
⊃ = Is the same as
⊨ is Entails
˜ = Not
∃ = There exists
∃! = There exists
∴ = Therefore
 · = Therefore
< = Is included
v = a logical inclusive disjunction (disjunction is the relationship between two distinct alternatives).
x = variable
· = Conjunction meaning And
0= Null class

The Universe of Classes

Previously we documented a system of houses (157), as example of K=interpreted as houses and a dyadic. (157)

'When a relation-symbol stands in a construct, the number of terms grouped with it reveals the degree of the relation. But when it is not actually used, but merely spoken of, it is sometimes convenient to have some way of denoting its degree. This may be done by adding a numerical subscript; for example, "kd2" means that "killing" is dyadic (a pair), "bt3" that "between" is triadic.' (55).

In such a dyadic system, all the elements have to expressible in terms of two elements. (157). There is a fixed element that relates to an element on the other end of the pole, so to speak. (157).

Every class is therefore relative to some given element. (157).

The defining form of the class must be in dyad (157) such as with Langer's example of K nt2.  These are the houses north of a stated element.

Langer explains that if the elements had begun with a triadic (group of three not two as in dyadic relation), such as using the term 'between', then two fixed elements would have been used to generate a class. (157). The class between a and b or the class of terms not between a and b.

Using dyadic:

K=interpreted as houses
nt=interpreted as north of...

K= (a, b, c... =nt2)

a, b, c... are houses north of x within this deductive system and universe of discourse.

My example:

C=interpreted as Cities

a= Prince George
b= Prince Rupert
c= Yellowknife

C= (a, b, c...=nt2)

a, b, c... are cities north of x=Vancouver within this deductive system and universe of discourse.

This serves as a logical means of categorization.

If this is legitimate, this is a pretty sad attempt to bring in attenders.