Nielsen’s Nook

Relating to Sin and the Fall

Translation and Commentary on Hebrews 3:15-19 2009-01-10

15 as it is said:Today if you should hear[1] his voice, Do not harden your hearts as during the rebellion.[2]16 For who were those who heard and rebelled? Was it not everyone who came out from Egypt by means of Moses? 17 And with whom was he[3] angered for forty[4] years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the ...

Reflections on Hebrews 3:12-14 2008-12-19

12 Take care, brothers and sisters, so that there will not be in any of you an evil faithless heart by which to fall away from the living God, 13 but encourage one another every day as long as the day is still called Today, so that none from among you become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For ...

Reflections on Romans 6:1-11 (NEEDS real title) 2008-06-29

1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him ...

The Tree of Wisdom - Part 5 2007-06-28

III. Wisdom: knowing good and evilA. Conceptually WisdomB. The Tree was not Evil in ItselfC. Review of what’s been said Broadly speaking, we live in a sacramental world that is related to us by means of covenant. ‘Sacramental’ here means that God uses outward/physical means to communicate spiritually to us We were created for godly wisdom and communing life with ...

The Tree of Wisdom - Part 4 2007-06-27

II. Covenantal FrameworkA. Covenantal Implications in a Sacramental World1. Covenantal: divine, personal condescensionCovenantsacramental world2. Sacramental: physical means of a spiritual communication[1]physical or outward means to communicate spiritually to usB. The Sacramental Nature of the Treesphysical symbolscommunicate a spiritual realityC. Probation of Humanity in the Garden[2]D. Destiny[1][2]The Westminster Theological ...

The Tree of Wisdom - Part 2 2007-06-25

(8) And YHWH God [1] planted a garden in Eden in the east [2] and there he placed the man [3] that he had fashioned. [4] (9) And out of the ground YHWH God caused to sprout [6] every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food. Now in the midst of the garden ...