Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 158
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Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 158.
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“The Bible describes fasting as a natural way for God’s people as individuals or as a body to express humility, sorrow, repentance, seriousness in prayer, and a desire for God’s manifest presence. In several passages its excesses are curbed, and priority is rightly redirected toward issues of the heart and ethics instead of ritualized hypocrisy.” (Page 87)
“Third, the Mosaic Covenant is no longer a functional covenant.” (Page 28)
“The notion that the nations of the world were geographically partitioned and owe their terrestrial identity to the sovereign God takes the reader back to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10–11. Two details there regarding God’s apportionment of the earth are important for understanding Deuteronomy 32:8. First, the Table of Nations catalogs seventy nations, but Israel is not included.7 Second, the use of the same Hebrew root (פָּרַד) in both Genesis 10 and Deuteronomy 32 to describe the ‘separation’ of the human race and the nations substantiates the long-recognized observation that Genesis 10–11 is the backdrop to the statement in Deuteronomy 32:8.8 Because Israel alone is Yahweh’s portion, she was not numbered among the seventy other nations.” (Page 53)
“Second, the blessings from the Mosaic Covenant were conditional.” (Page 28)
“Many evangelical scholars interpret the Mosaic Law by emphasizing the distinction between moral, civil, and ceremonial laws. They define moral laws as those that deal with timeless truths regarding God’s intention for human ethical behavior.” (Page 22)
- Title: Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 158
- Author: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Series: Bibliotheca Sacra
- Publisher: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Print Publication Date: 2001
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Periodicals
- Resource ID: LLS:gs_bsac_158
- Resource Type: Journal
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