The biblical idea of government involves ruling, and ruling involves rules, laws and/or principles. All ruling involves decision-making on the basis of some standard for judgment, and the story of the Bible is the story of the establishment of a…
Author: Phillip Ross
Church
The Greek word for church is ἐκκλησία, and means called out. But it doesn’t simply refer to a group of people who are supposed to get out of one place to gather in another. Rather, it refers to the place…
High Places
A better translation here (Eph. 1:20) might be “highest heaven.” It is so translated in the Authorized Version, Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of…
Power
(From In Christ—The Church at Ephesus, forthcoming.) That power (Eph. 1:19) includes the power needed to perform miracles, the power to create and mature moral excellence, the power and influence that belong to riches and wealth, the power and resources…
Purpose
(From In Christ—The Church at Ephesus, forthcoming.) Next Paul provided the purpose for all of this: “that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you” (Eph. 1: 18). Having some sense of generic hope is…
Secret Service Kerfuffle
What does the recent Secret Service kerfuffle mean? Members of the Secret Service are drawn from the cream of the crop of American society, the best of the best that America can produce. The best what? The best people measured…
Richard Dawkins vs Cardinal George Pell
There are so many problems with this debate that it’s hard to know where to begin. I can’t agree with either disputant. Dawkins proves that it is possible to be deluded about God, and he is correct. He adequately proves…
This is My Body
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you.” (Luke 22:19). What are we doing here? What did Jesus do in…
Peter’s Vision of The End
Add To Cart Price $12.95 ISBN: 978-0-9820385-9-8 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2012 by Phillip A. Ross 195 pages 195 pages by Phillip A. Ross Introduction A couple of years ago a friend asked me about my interpretation of 2 Peter…
Marriage Fidelity
What’s wrong with current marriage laws? In a recent article (Marriage Equality, 12/21/2011) the following scenario was suggested: the person you love is injured in an auto accident and is barely clinging to life in the hospital, but you cannot…