Category: Ephesians

Paul Teaches the Talmud

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Ephesians 5:22-28 (KJV)

There’s no doubt that Paul was a great mind who resolved many of the issues relating to the Gentiles as they became newly grafted-in Israelites. His writings, when understood in proper context are filled with wisdom. But Paul was also a product of his culture. He was a Pharisee who knew the Talmud, including the Mishnah, and used the Oral Law in his own instructions. Continue reading “Paul Teaches the Talmud”

It’s Not Just One Covenant

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Ephesians 2:12 (KJV)

Covenants – Yup, that’s right, it’s in the plural form. And you thought there was just one covenant didn’t you? We focus on the new covenant and forget about all the rest. But that’s the Greek mind, not the Hebrew. In Hebrew thinking, covenants are layered one upon the other. They build upon the previous covenants and grow from them, never doing away with the ones that came before. Continue reading “It’s Not Just One Covenant”