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40 Problem Passages...

By Michael Penny

Paperback: 275 pages

$15.95

This book is a sequel to Michael Penny’s earlier book Approaching the Bible It applies the principles set out there to 40 Problem Passages from the Bible. In other words, it follows the advice given by Miles Coverdale. That advice was based on asking such questions as:

"Who" were these words written to, or "Who" were they about?
"Where" is this to take place?
"When" was it written or "When" is it about?
"What", precisely, is said?
"Why" did God say it, do it, or will do it?

After asking such questions, we then will have a better understanding of the Bible and can "apply" that passage to our lives today.

There are far more than 40 Problem Passages in the Bible!

However, in this book Michael Penny not only solves these 40 Problem Passages, he also equips the reader with a method by which many, many more problem passages can be understood and successfully applied to the life of a believer today.

The 40 Problem Passages are:

PART 1: Problem Passages in the Old Testament
Genesis 4:2-7 "The Cain Complex"
Judges 11:29-40 "Jephthah and His Daughter"
Isaiah 1:18-20 "Salvation or Slaughter?"
Jeremiah 31:31-34 "The New Covenant"
Daniel 9:24 "Seventy Sevens"

PART 2: Problem Passages in the Gospels
Matthew 5: 17-20 "Abolish the Law?"
Matthew 6:25-34 "All These Things Shall be Added?"
Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask...Seek...Knock! Receive...Find...Open?"
Matthew 10:5-7 "Do Not go Among the Gentiles"
Matthew 12:30-32 & Luke 12:8-10 "The Unforgivable Sin!"
Matthew 18:18-20 "Whatever you Bind on Earth will be Bound in Heaven!"
Matthew 24:34 & Luke 21:32 "This Generation Shall not Pass Away..."
Matthew 27:50-51, Mark 15:37-39, Luke 23:44-49 "Temple Curtain Torn in Two From Top to Bottom"
Matthew 28:16-20 "The Great Commission"
Mark 1:9-10 "Total Immersion?"
Mark 7:18-23 "Jesus Declared all Food Clean?"
Mark 16:15-16, Acts 2:37-39 "Baptismal Regeneration?"
Luke 3:10-14 "The Man With Two Tunics to Share With the Man With None"
John 14:9-12 "Greater Things Than These..."
John 14:9-14 "Ask in My Name and I will do It"
John 20:21-13 "If You Forgive Anyone Their sins, They are Forgiven!"

PART 3: Problem Passages in the Acts and the Early Letters
Acts 10:23-29 "Against the Law for a Jew to Associate with or Visit a Gentile"
Acts 15:23-29 "Abstain From Meat of Strangled Animals and From Blood"
Romans 1:14-17 "The Gospel to the Jew First Then to the Gentile"
Romans 11:11 "Salvation Come to the Gentiles to Make Israel Envious"
1 Cor.7:27 "Do not Look for a Wife"
1 Cor. 15:29 "Vicarious Baptism"
Galatians 3:29 & 6:16 "The Church is Spiritual Israel"
Galatians 4:3 & 9 "Basic Principles"
Galatians 5:11 "If I am Still Preaching Circumcision, Why am I Being Persecuted?"
Galatians 5:21 "Those That Live Like This will not Inherit the Kingdom of God"
Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever"
James 1:5-8 "If Any of You Lacks Wisdom... Ask God... Who Will Give it"
James 5:15 "Prayer Offered in Faith Will Make the Sick Well"
1 John 1:9 "Confession of Sin Needed for Forgiveness?"
1 John 5:16 "The Sin That Leads to Death"
Revelation 13:18 "666"
Revelation 20:10 "They will be Tormented Day and Night Forever"

PART 4: Problem Passages in the Later Letters
Ephesians 4:11 "Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers"
Philippians 2:12 "Work out Your Salvation with Fear and Trembling!"

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