The Sin That Cannot Be Forgiven
Reading Jesus’ hardest saying in its first setting. In Mark’s Gospel the unforgivable sin named something specific: seeing the Spirit set someone free and calling that work evil.
Reading Jesus’ hardest saying in its first setting. In Mark’s Gospel the unforgivable sin named something specific: seeing the Spirit set someone free and calling that work evil.
First Timothy never explicitly says that Jesus is God. Yet throughout the letter, Jesus is associated with divine blessings, salvation, worship, and the manifestation of God. What does this tell us about how early Christians understood Jesus, and how does it fit within Jewish monotheism?
In Unit 1, we learned that the Bible is a library rather than a single book. Now let me take you inside that library and walk you down its aisles, because a library is only useful if you know how it is organized. Imagine walking into a building full of thousands of books with no…
The Bible may look like a single book, but it is really a library of writings produced across centuries. Understanding that diversity is one of the first steps toward learning how to read it well.