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If we were to take a poll of modern Christians and ask them what they think are some of the key issues facing the church today, what would be on that list? Certainly it would include things like, what is at the heart of the ministry of the church? How should women participate in the church? How important is the preaching ministry of the church, and what should the church’s preaching look like?...

the Jewish nature of this teaching. This is supported by a parallel verse, Titus 1:14, where Paul tells Titus to rebuke those who ‘devote themselves [the same verb as here in 1 Timothy 1:4, though a different verbal form] to Jewish myths’. Thus the Jewish character of this teaching (though perhaps with some Greek influence) seems clear. The precise nature of this teaching is more difficult to ascertain, although examining the usage of the terms ‘myths’ and ‘genealogies’ in the larger Graeco-Roman
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