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Is God Guilt of Fraud (Formerly The Greatness of God: Examining God's CV)
As the series has progressed the concept that God is good and great must be reconciled with his commands to put entire cities to death. The question is then more aptly stated, “Is God Guilty of Fraud?” These lessons and videos are part of a series: Is God Guilty of Fraud (formerly, The Greatness of God) – Mark Lanier, A trial lawyer by trade, examines the truth of God’s greatness by examining His Curriculum Vitae (CV). In consecutive lessons, Mark uses God’s CV to understand who He is, what his greatness has to do with us, why God has done horrible things and allows evil, what is the truth about God’s greatness, does God’s CV indicate that he keeps his promises and does God’s CV include references that back up the claim to His greatness? In consecutive lessons, he uses God’s CV to understand who He is what his greatness has to do with us why God has done horrible things and allows evil what is the truth about God’s greatness whether God’s CV indicate that he keeps his promises does God’s CV include references that back up the claim to His greatness For the YouTube Playlist of this series, go here. For the podcast, go here.
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  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 01 – Vocabulary
    LGG 01 – Vocabulary One of the best ways to illustrate the difficulty on translating Greek into modern English is by considering several words as representative examples. Tetelestai, which is translated as “it is finished” and teleios, which is translated “perfect”, “mature”, or “full”, are investigated in the lesson this week. Key Words Translation, vocabulary, […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 02 – Vocabulary Part 2
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 2 – Vocabulary The vocabulary word for this lesson is elpis, which can be translated hope or confident expectation. This is in contrast to the hope one has in a winning lottery ticket. There are 53 instances where this word is used in the New Testament. The Apostle Paul used the […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 03 – Vocabulary Part 3
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 3 – Vocabulary The vocabulary words for this lesson are dikaios, which can be translated righteousness or justification; Hagios, or Holy; and, Pistis, which is translated as faith, or belief. Many of our English words are mixed from Germanic or Latin roots. In this case righteousness is from the Germanic root […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 04 – Emphasis
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 05 – Emphasis Part 2
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 5- Balancing In English, and particularly since the introduction of word processors, we have numerous ways of emphasizing our written words. We can use bold font, or underline word, or we can capitalize letters, or we can use punctuation. But the ancient Greek writers did not have these tools at their […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 06 – Balaning (μέν, δέ)
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 6- Balancing Particles: A word expressing a mode of thought, considered either in isolation or in relation to another thought, or a mood of emotion. “Men” and “de”, are often used together as a contrast…on the one hand….and, on the other hand. There are many examples in the New Testament of […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 07 – Vocabulary: Theological Language
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 7- Theological Language There are Greek words that held a common meaning in their day, but also could hold a more specific meaning for the Christian community. This lesson will discuss how this could affect the translation of: “diabolos” or slanderer; “Church (“Ekklesia”), “Apostle”; and, “Grace” (Charis). The dichotomy in usage, […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 08 – Vocabulary: Theological Language
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 8- Theological Language Grace Grace can be translated a number of ways: Favor, as in favorable; or in doing one a favor; or benefit; or, thanks; or gift; or, grateful; or, gracious. Grace is not a ‘homonym’, but is simply one word with a wide range of meaning. ‘Anti’ is a […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 09 – Vocabulary: Verbal Aspect
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 9 – Verbal Aspect The main Greek tenses are: ‘aorist’, ‘present’ and ‘imperfect’ and the ‘perfect’ tense. The ‘aorist’ tense occurs where the writer wants to show action as complete within itself, with no particular emphasis on the events spoken of. It is the “default” tense. When the ‘present’ and ‘imperfect […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 10 – Vocabulary: Verbal Aspect Part 2
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 10 – Verbal Aspect Part 2 Further to last weeks lesson on the verb tenses, another way to illustrate the “aorist” tense is to consider a modern news report on a hurricane: the satellite view is likened to the “aorist” view, which is the most common tense used in Biblical Greek […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 11 – Vocabulary: Greek Puns
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 11 – Greek Puns Puns are fun ways to play around with words and they make things memorable, humorous, interesting and though provoking. Puns also package two meanings into the same statement. There are numerous examples throughout the New Testament and unless one studies Greek one might miss the nuance provided […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
  • Life Group Greek

    LGG 13 – The Greek
    Life Group Greek: Lesson 13 – The Greek “Y’all” Our modern English has replaced the former “thee” and “thou” with “you,” and “thy” with “your.” Furthermore, we now use “you” for both the singular and plural cases. This introduces some confusion, complicating translation from the Greek. One way to address this is to use the […]
    10 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier

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