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DESCRIPTION: Jack explains something he promised to explain about a comment made in passing in an earlier episode, and it leads into a fuller discussion of the importance of context in Bible study—and not just the immediate context of a passage, but a context that goes as wide as to studying even the extrabiblical writings from the Ancient Near Eastern cultures, including the Hebrew culture that produced all of the Bible documents.

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DESCRIPTION: Jack explains more about what it means to be created “in the image and likeness” of God, and how it does not mean that we are his “representatives” on the Earth. He also introduces “Hermeneutics” and begins what will be an ongoing discussion on that topic.

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DESCRIPTION: We’re back after recovering from a malware attack and switching web hosts! In this episode, Jack explores what it means for us that we are created beings, and what our attitudes about that should be, according to the Bible.

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DESCRIPTION: This episode looks at some of the grunt work of good Bible study as Jack demonstrates a ballpark idea of just how much the Bible talks about thinking. And from there, we get into the topic of grace, and what our response to it should be.