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An idiom is a figure of speech that is designed to express a literal concept through an abstract picture. “Kicking the bucket” is an idiom depicting death, yet at death one doesn’t literally kick a bucket. There are literally thousands of idioms in the English language, but nobody knows the actual number. Many idioms are regional, and some are even personal. When I was growing up, my friends and I
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In the course of dialog over issues that we, as Messianic believers, hold to be essential, the Sabbath is a regular subject. Yet as part of the larger body of Messiah we recognize that the majority of our brothers and sisters in the Christian church have been taught that the Sabbath has been abolished in favor of Sunday. While discussing the validity of the Sabbath, Romans 14:5-6 inevitably becomes the
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In 1990 a Christian friend, knowing that my view of Paul’s writings was different from that of most other Bible believers, referred me to an article in Christianity Today. The title of the article was “The Misunderstood Apostle,” and the subheading declared that “A revolution in New Testament studies has challenged traditional understandings of Paul’s critique of Judaism.” According to the writer of the article, this “revolution” began in 1977
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