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Questions Week 13, Day 2

by David Joynt on July 24, 2017


MATTHEW 5:17-20

 

If I was debating Marcion today, I’d want to make two key points. First that the new things we learn about God through Jesus didn’t give us an entirely different deity, but rather a deeper understanding of the Heavenly Father identified within the Old Testament. God’s revelation is progressive in scripture, and so new insights modify older assumptions. But progress does not imply complete discontinuity. Jesus says this explicitly in the Sermon on the Mount—”Don’t think I’ve come to destroy the law, instead I’ve come to fill it even fuller with meaning.” Jesus quotes the O.T. 180 times, with approval and respect. In his teaching on the law in Matthew, he does not take positions antithetical to O.T. law,  but instead brings out the deeper, wider meaning.

 

 

Has your own knowledge of God deepened through time?

 

FAMILY TIME—

How do we get to know someone better?

How do we get to know God better?

 

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About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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