Category: Volume 1

Kevin Spawn This paper explores Ebionism and Marcionism, two early church heresies which depict the two most antithetical forms of the Judaism-OT and Christianity-NT breach in early Christianity. Ebionism’s philo-Semitlism and Marcionism’s chagrin for the Jewish roots of Christianity are discussed and shown to be antecedents to certain contemporary heretical conceptions; special emphasis is given […]

Gregory L Powell Social life during the Reformation was immensely diverse. A key characteristic was humanity’s inability to control and shape its own destiny. Human misfortune was attributed to the spiritual forces of Good and Evil which waged war on the earth. A superstitious culture looked to various forms of spirituality in an attempt to […]

Marvin Wilson Summary Introduction From Bible times, the Jewish people have espoused concepts of justice and community life which are quite different from the individualism often characteristic of modern Western Christianity. The biblical emphasis of the Hebrews upon corporate life and mutual accountability allowed them to reach out with compassion to the powerless and poor […]

Marvin Wilson The year 1993 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Hitler’s rise to power, but what have we learned over the last sixty years? The Holocaust years (1933-1945) present all humanity with a tragedy of mind boggling proportion. The Holocaust was not and is not a Jewish problem. It was a crime against all humanity […]

Michael Garton Summary Ancient Greek philosophy anticipated the conclusion of modern Darwinian evolution. This was not because of the extraordinary scientific foresight of the Greeks, but because their evolutionary philosophies have gripped Western civilisation; to them all scientific theories must subscribe. Inevitably, this has led to fallacious scientific reasoning. One illustration is the accepted myth […]

David Bivin Foreword One of the most important aspects of Jesus’ ministry is that He lived a full human life on earth. As such, He existed in an historical context – He was a Jew who spoke Hebrew and Aramaic and lived in the Land of Israel in the first century. He received a Jewish […]

David Bivin Introduction There are many expressions in the Greek texts of the synoptic Gospels that seem to derive from Hebrew idioms. These are phrases that mean something different from the literal meaning of the words they use. Every language has its own idioms, many of which seem strange when translated literally out of their […]

Clifford Denton The things that occupy our time, our reading, our interests, our activities, influence our ways of thinking and the way in which we determine our priorities and perceptions of life. In addition, there are ways in which we train our minds to think. This can subtly influence our lives and perceptions of truth, […]

Dov Chaikin “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you” (Exodus 12:2 – NAS B). This is our introduction to the first month in the divine calendar. The name given to that month was “Aviv” (“spring”) (Exodus 13:4, 23:15, 34:18; Deuteronomy […]

Let me first make a clear statement. Unless a fellowship or a believer responds to the call to be grafted properly into the Saviour (John 15:6), which is symbolised by being properly grafted into the same olive tree as the Jewish believers (Romans 11) then, in the coming days, there is the danger of being […]