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Dear friends,

Welcome to my blog. I am honored to have you visit. I hope you'll find my articles a blessing. I welcome your input and especially comments and questions.

I write as a Christian from Jerusalem, Israel about Biblical subjects.

I am particularly interested in the subjects of children, families, women's issues, corporal punishment, science and nature as these subjects relate to the Holy Scriptures.

For more information, see my website: www.biblechild.com

With every good wish - Samuel Martin

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Enjoying the William Webb book

Enjoying the William Webb book - One of the most powerful points of this book are the people who are endorsing it, especially the highly esteemed New Testament scholar, I. Howard Marshall, who wrote the foreword. Will be having much more to say on this one. https://shop.ivpress.com/epages/IVP.storefront/en/addtobasket/0-8308-2761-7


William Webb confronts those often avoided biblical passages that call for the corporal punishment of children, slaves and wrongdoers. How should we understand and apply them today? Are we obligated to replicate those injunctions today? Or does the proper interpretation of them point in a differe...

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