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I could write a small book on the Matthew 7:13-23 passage alone. I have seen Christians react one way or another to this passage..either they see many other Christians as not following this narrow path and not truly knowing who Christ is but simply throw around His Name, believing only they are on that straight and narrow path or they react with fear and think they must somehow work harder using 'works' to assure their salvation. Neither response is correct though. What they need to do is work ...

Obviously, nobody before Jacob/Israel would have been an Israelite.

If Jacob/Israel himself was an Israelite, he couldn't have been a member of any of the tribes, because the tribes began with his sons.

From the research I've done, there were subtribes within tribes, and, if I remember right, subtribes within subtribes.

His sons couldn't have been members of any of the subtribes of the tribes, because the subtribes would had to have begun with Jacob/Israel's ...

"Overview: Block 2"

Okay, we come to what I consider the second major section of the letter, and of chapter one. The main aspects of Listening, Hearing/Reading, and Doing will lead us into a larger application in Chapter two. Chapter two will concern itself with 'How We Treat Others', but a theological sidelight for us will be 'Faith vs. Works'. The problem of preferential treatment in fellowhips was a big one in James, and he presents a point of view, from an Apostle, of it's ...

"Law, Sin, and Flesh"

In any serious study of scripture, the commentator, as an exegete of the written word, must rely on his view of Hermeneutics. This is simply how we view and interpret scriptures. As a reader, you must always read a verse in context and consider it from the view of how the thought is used in the contextual flow of the passage. One good example is in Acts14:

"Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God."

Now, we ...

Lets take a look at that in the amplified:

1Pe 3:7 In the same way you married men should live considerately with [your wives], with an intelligent recognition [of the marriage relation], honoring the woman as{ [physically] the weaker,} but [realizing that you] are joint heirs of the grace (God's unmerited favor) of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered and cut off. [Otherwise you cannot pray effectively.]

We need a protector.... God with skin on him that ...