4 Editor’s Note: In 1987 Asbury Theological Seminary received a generous grant from the Pew Charitable Trust to undertake a major Wesleyan-Holiness Study Project….

4 Editor’s Note: In 1987 Asbury Theological Seminary received a generous grant from the Pew Charitable Trust to undertake a major Wesleyan-Holiness Study Project….

1Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being
gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,a 2not to be quickly
shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a
letter seeming to be from us, to th…

1Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being
gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,a 2not to be quickly
shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a
letter seeming to be from us, to th…

Have you ever, in a moment of immersion in deep thought, had a question like “When did the existence of God begin?” Or perhaps: “How could God always have existed, and how can He exist forever?” I’ve had similar questions a number of times over my life…

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in…

So I was spending some time with the Hebrew under the Cain and Abel narrative in Genesis 4. I noticed a peculiarity in the Hebrew in God’s instructions to Cain after his offering was rejected. I think it may challenge the way that the th…