You're favorite book of the bible?

[Revmitchell]

BTW, are you familiar with this Timothy George?

A little bit. I have seen his writings here and there.

 

[Crabtownboy]

I like Proverbs very much ... nuggets of truth in just a sentence or two.

 

[go2church]

Dr. George is a highly respected scholar at Beeson Divinity which is at Samford University in Birmingham, AL. He is baptist and reformed. I met him once and he couldn't have been nicer. Though I'm not Calvinist, his writings can be very useful as he avoids much of the rhetoric that some Calvinists are more prone to spout and is very well researched.

 

[padredurand]

A little bit. I have seen his writings here and there.

Dr. George is a highly respected scholar at Beeson Divinity which is at Samford University in Birmingham, AL. He is baptist and reformed. I met him once and he couldn't have been nicer. Though I'm not Calvinist, his writings can be very useful as he avoids much of the rhetoric that some Calvinists are more prone to spout and is very well researched.

Thanks for the information. :thumbsup:

 

[ShagNappy]

Haggai currently.

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Hosea, for a long time. The patient love and forgiveness he shows his prostitute-wife is the perfect image of God's love for us, the sinner saved by grace, just as God intended it to be such an image for Israel.

 

[kyredneck]

...You 'James people', Luther called your book an "epistle of straw", why'd he do that?

That's a reflection of Luther, not Scripture.

Perhaps he thought that it-- the word I had in mind might be censored.

Like said before this is more of a reflection on Luther than Scripture. Do have any background on this? I'd be very interesting how he could draw that conclusion.

From Revmitchell's link:

"What did Luther mean when he called James “a right strawy epistle” (eyn rechte stroern Epistel)? The image of straw recalls the Pauline metaphor of “wood, hay and stubble” (1 Cor 3:12), “Holz, Stroh oder Heu” in Luther’s rendering, the faulty materials which some use in trying to build on the foundation of Christ. Some doubtful epistles such as Hebrews were a mixture of worthless and valuable mate- rials, but James was really (rechte) an epistle of straw!

In his “Preface to the Epistle of James” Luther cited three reasons for this harsh negative judgment......" :

" First, James contradicts Paul and all the rest of the Scripture in ascribing justification to works....."

"...Second, it does not really preach or inculcate Christ. There is no mention of the passion, the resurrection, or the Spirit of Christ...."

"Third, granted the good intentions of the author, i.e., to guard against a false view of faith without works, he was unequal to the task. Thus Luther con- cluded that the author must have been “some good, pious man, who took a few sayings from the disciples of the apostles and thus tossed them off on paper.”...."