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Navigating Tough Texts: A Guide to Problem Passages in the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

A guide for reading and understanding difficult New Testament verses. While the core message of the New Testament is clear, there are often puzzling, alarming, or confusing things we encounter when we get into the details of the text. Murray J. Harris, veteran scholar and translator, is an ideal guide through these complicated passages. In Navigating Tough Texts, he clearly and concisely...

Our English word “blaspheme” derives from two Greek words—blaptō (“harm,” “damage”) and phēmē (“reputation”). To blaspheme is to injure the reputation of God by slanderous speech about him, or by misusing his name (Exod 20:7; Deut 5:11). Originally blasphemy also involved the repudiation of the political and social order that God commanded and upheld. But today in the Western world, “blasphemy” has been watered down to the offense of religious
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