Bible Study

I have been trying to study the best way to share the gospel with Jews. Every resource I've found jumps immediately to Jesus which is New Testament. They don't spend time in the Hebrews scriptures building the foundation, which is what God did. Now, I'm going to violate my desire immediately, but I'm also including other thoughts I've had about the gospel in the Old Testament.

"ου μη" in Biblical Greek is called the "Emphatic negation" and is considered by Greek scholars to be the strongest way to say "no", "definitely not". There are 94 occurrences in the New Testament, so we might not get through all of them today.

We will be looking at occurrence of this word and how it proves that Jesus is God. This will get into the Greek but I'll do my best to keep it understandable for everyone. The important point to note is the "vocative" case and we'll explain that in careful detail. And more. Rock joined and we started talking about Eternal Security and Sabbatarianism and more.

This was going to be about theistic determinism but we scrapped that and just had some fellowship. I was going to talk about, if God determined everything, how does that not make Him the author of evil? Does scripture teach that God determined everything? Does Romans 9 teach it? But that will be tomorrow.

We're going to start by doing a study of "vine" in scripture and what Jesus might have meant. I want to put John 15 in context of the OT and what He would have sounded like to the hearers.