Philippians‚ Paul is in prison (Phil 1:12-13). The geographical location of this prison is up for debate‚ some scholars believe that he could have been in Rome‚ while others believe that Paul is in Caesarea . These scholars that believe Paul is in prison in Caesarea‚ because the travel time is much shorter than Rome and Paul was able to write at least three letters to the Philippians. The city of Philippi was built in 358-357 B.C.E. by King Philip II of Macedon
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Exegetic Study #5- Acts 27-28 In Acts 26 we see Paul being arrested by the Jews in Rome and then being released but the Jews demand that Paul be put to death so Paul asserts his Roman citizenship and demands to be allowed to plead his case before Caesar. To do this Paul is put on a ship to sail to Rome but he is a prisoner and is under the guard of a centurion named Julius. However the ship runs into rather dreadful weather and the apostle is given a chance to care for the ship’s crew and to
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Slavery is spoken of all throughout the Holy Scriptures. One account is in the book of Philemon. In Philemon‚ Paul is writing to Philemon‚ a local slave owner‚ encouraging him to take back his runaway slave‚ Onesimus. Philemon contains the ingredients to change whole societies if understood in the correct light. In order to understand Paul’s request to Philemon‚ we must examine the societal
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In Ephesians 5:5-21‚ Paul addresses the church of Ephesus to encourage them in righteous living and conduct. In the NIV‚ the subtitle is Living as Children of Light‚ and this subtitle conveys the thought of the entire section that will be discussed and will help the reader understand the main thesis of Ephesians 5:7-14. In verses Ephesians 5:5-6‚ Paul tells the Ephesians that they cannot enter the Kingdom of God if they are in immorality and that God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. With
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Having concluded his appeal in verse 16 to both his interests and Philemon’s‚ Paul makes three requests‚ telling Philemon what his next steps should be. The first request is that Philemon would “receive him as you would receive me” (1:17) and it is a strong request that puts Onesimus on the same level of respect as Paul. The second request is to forgive Onesimus’s debt and “charge that to my account”(1:18). Here‚ Paul is asking Philemon to do something extraordinary - forgive Onesimus for having
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(1:4) after first hearing the gospel roughly five years prior. That Paul continuously seeks to reaffirm the absolute authority and complete sufficiency of Christ indicates the presence of false teachers in the church. The Colossians are warned against believing “hollow and deceptive philosophy” in 2:8 which attempted to subvert the gospel’s emphasis of faith in Christ alone by worshipping
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Figure of Paul A questio may help us peer into Luke’s threefold intention in this section: Why does Luke have three accounts of Paul’s call? First‚ by devoting precious space to three accounts of Paul’s call‚ Luke spotlights the significance of Paul as key points in his story. In chapter 9 the call of the missionary to the gentiles par excellence—Paul—is introduced when the Spirit is on the brink of moving the misson to the gentiles (see 10:1-48). In chapters 22 and 26 the call of Paul is introduced
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we see Barnabas in action is in Acts 4:36-7‚ He sells his property so that the money could be shared with anyone in need. In Acts 9‚ we meet Barnabas for the 2nd time dealing with Paul. Paul used to be a persecutor of the church‚ until his conversion experience. Due to Pauls past‚ church leaders were afraid to meet Paul. They
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the deeper questions of life. Such as God’s existence or what right and wrong is. Paul instead is addressing certain challenges the Gentiles and Jews encountering. To address these challenges‚ he creates a foundation for a biblical worldview they could use. He teaches how a Christian should view the natural world‚ our human identity and our human relationships: as well as culture. In the first chapter of Romans‚ Paul begins building a biblical worldview for the church in Rome by identifying God as
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enters into the social context of early Christianity‚ specifically Pauline Christianity. The world has information about Pauline Christianity for the several letters that were written by Paul himself and by his followers. In addition. The Book of Acts‚ written by Luke‚ also offers many details about the mission of Paul and his companions. The information that the Letters and the Book of Acts allow us to see that Pauline Christianity was not the work of a single person‚ but a mission carried by an extended
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