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Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:35:28 -0400

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Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:05:37 -0400

Martin Roy posted an update: History of the Bible, session 8In French, we would […]

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:17:00 -0400

History of the Bible, session 8

In French, we would say: c’est l’éléphant dans la pièce. The “big thing” (the elephant) everybody sees but faints to see. Or doesn’t want to see. What we could name “The (Big) King James Controversy”.

I won’t trace every line surrounding the controversy about the King James version. Mainly, some verses, such as…

Martin Roy posted an update: History of the Bible, session 7As we approach the end of […]

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:10:08 -0400

History of the Bible, session 7

As we approach the end of the course — already, as this one ends at session 8 — I won’t tell much about the King James controversy until the next — and last — session, because in my French (-Canadian and international) world, I’m living in a very different reality. That doesn’t signify this controversy is totally…

Martin Roy posted an update: History of the Bible, session 6Establishing an […]

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:24:39 -0400

History of the Bible, session 6

Establishing an official canon for the Bible has been what we can qualify “a journey”. The 4th century is a pivotal time for the core of this project. Essentially, Eusebius of Caesarea — one of the fathers of the Church — played a key role, after the newly converted emperor Constantine asked him to find a way (sort…

Martin Roy posted an update: History of the Bible, session 5The composition of the […]

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:23:16 -0400

History of the Bible, session 5

The composition of the Bible is a clever mix between divine revelation, use of more or less inspired literary sources and collaborations between the alleged authors of the different books composing the biblical canon and their particular secretaries, commonly called amenuenses in Koine Greek.

That’s what comes out…

Martin Roy posted an update: History of the Bible, session 4If I’d been allowed, as I […]

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 01:30:33 -0400

History of the Bible, session 4

If I’d been allowed, as I often do it in my job as journalist for the written press, to give a title to this session, I would undoubtedly have entitled it: “The Hard Profession of a Scribe” or “The Odyssey of a Masorete”.

Can I get an AMEN if I say how lucky we are to have printers, computers and other tools that…

Martin Roy posted an update: History of the Bible, session 3A few interesting points […]

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 01:14:59 -0400

History of the Bible, session 3

A few interesting points in that session which had as main theme the canon of the Bible (and its construction over the centuries). — I cannot help but highlight I’m talking about the “canonization” of the Bible the day where (today), pope Leon XIV canonized two new Roman Catholic saints, one of them being Carlo…

Martin Roy posted an update: History of the Bible, session 2Interesting session where […]

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:02:50 -0400

History of the Bible, session 2

Interesting session where we go back to the very genesis — that term lends itself very well to this — of the enscripturation not only of the Hebrew Bible, but of the scripture in itself (with a small “s”, in a general sense).

I did note particularly that, for a good part of the Hebrew Bible’s composition — into the…

Martin Roy posted an update: History of the Bible, session 1After having graduated […]

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:04:31 -0400

History of the Bible, session 1

After having graduated from The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit course offered by AWKNG School of Theology, I chose to take another one with them, also interesting: History of the Bible.

From the outset, I can say that this subject is not unknown to me. I have read several books and reviewed several articles in…

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, modules 11 and […]

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:06:39 -0400

AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, modules 11 and 12

As the course finishes with the small module 12 given as a conclusion full of hope and kindness from our instructor Joel Muddamalle, I decided to combine these two last sessions in my commentary.

There was actually one last doctrinal point that hasn’t been yet discussed: holiness. A…

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 10Very […]

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:44:47 -0400

AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 10

Very busy session with this one. It’s never so simple to talk about the spiritual gifts, because many kinds of opinions exist depending on which denomination we are, what kind of experience or knowledge we have about this and even, we can have different points of views in the same church.

Our…

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Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:20:18 -0400

@edwardcollins thank you very much for your comment! be blessed! 😊

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AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 8

Walking in (or by) the Spirit, an expression or metaphor often used by Paul in his epistles. Walking by the Spirit implies we still […]

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 9Is the […]

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:18:24 -0400

AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 9

Is the fruit of the Holy Spirit a kind of fruit salad? Or maybe it would be a flavorous smoothie… depending what kind of blend you should prefer!

I like these comparisons Robert Elmer did on the Logos Word By Word blog. Before going further with this, it may be a good idea that just recapping…

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 8Walking […]

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:45:02 -0400

AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 8

Walking in (or by) the Spirit, an expression or metaphor often used by Paul in his epistles. Walking by the Spirit implies we still make this physical gesture BY ourselves, but we no longer do it FOR ourselves. My capital letters at these two words “by” and “for” highlight an important nuance,…

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 7The […]

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:15:42 -0400

AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 7

The work(s) of the Holy Spirit did set the major part of this session. First of all — and certainly the most important task for our lives and all humanity — the Spirit plays a central role in the process of salvation. Only for this mission, we can already say that he’s a busy bee! Professor…

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Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:20:07 -0400

@jeffshott That’s true and I agree with you!

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AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 6

I’m gonna try to make it shorter for this session. First of all, our instructor Joel Muddamalle says that the epistle to the […]

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 6I’m […]

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:02:10 -0400

AWKNG – The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 6

I’m gonna try to make it shorter for this session. First of all, our instructor Joel Muddamalle says that the epistle to the Ephesians has a special place into his heart, and for two reasons: it was the subject of his doctoral thesis under the direction of a teacher he loved very much; second —…

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 5The story […]

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:25:42 -0400

AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 5

The story of the Samaritan woman in John 4 is one of my favourite accounts in all the Bible. I totally agree with the scholars and our instructor for the course as they say unanimously it’s a beautiful and instructive account… and quite bizarre we can say that too. By the way, I didn’t know until…

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 4Many […]

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:03:55 -0400

AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 4

Many beautiful and interesting things in this module, as we continue our deep learning about the Holy Spirit. Not easy to navigate into a realm so vast as the one belonging to the Third Person of the Trinity. We are finite, and our God is infinite. He gave us perfectible intelligence and wisdom…

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 3For sure, […]

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:03:59 -0400

AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 3

For sure, the Holy Spirit is very unique. He is a breath, wind, wisdom inspirer, advocate and creator of life. Through the ages, he indwelled or empowered kings, prophets, apostles, disciples and believers and his own will gives him power and authority. Because of his multiple aspects and multiple…

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Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:31:03 -0400

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Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:31:03 -0400

Predestination still remains a hardly debated question within the Protestant en Evangelical movements. It’s not all of a sudden. From the beginning in the Baptist church movement, predestination has been one of the core disputes between the tenants of the calvinistic position and the supporters of the arminian posture. This is why the Baptists…

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Course:Doctrine of salvation (Soteriology) Lesson 1: predestination part 1

This chapter give a large introduction to the predestination, Dr. David introduces the book of […]

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 2The […]

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:20:11 -0400

AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 2

The question asked for the second discussion of this course series was: How does the language of the Spirit in the Old and New Testaments inform our understanding of the personality and character of the Spirit?

I answered this: In the Old Testament, the Spirit is represented by the Hebrew word…

Martin Roy posted an update: AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 1Before […]

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:20:44 -0400

AWKNG — The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, module 1

Before taking another course on the very strong and instructive platform Bibleproject, I decided to visit the AWKNG courses platform. It’s a bit different, but interesting too and the courses I attended so far are also instructive, accurate and practical for the distance education program I’m…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 31Here we are: the […]

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:55:29 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 31

Here we are: the ultimate purpose of all the biblical narrative is this, and it’s very prophetic: God is to deliver every humans from all kinds of oppression, from every boundages that make him sick or even put his life in danger, and God wants to destroy the death once and for all. He is to establish His heavenly…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 30Very, very interesting […]

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:20:12 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 30

Very, very interesting session about the seventh day and the shabbat here. First of all, teacher Tim shows us many patterns of seven words counted sentences in Genesis 1. A pattern that is repeated several times in Genesis, with poetrical symmetries, similarities and other good literrary good stuff that point out to…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 29Honestly, I’ve never seen the […]

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:04:54 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 29

Honestly, I’ve never seen the story of Daniel 7 as a meditation on Genesis 3 before.

Everytime I read this chapter or heard a teaching on it, it was always been interpreted in an eschatological view, an end of time prophecy stressed by some elements we’re seeing now in the world.

In fact, I understand there’s a…

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Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:24:27 -0400

@stephenlawes Thank you for your comment pastor Steve! Many things in my childhood have shaped my faith and some of them became strong foundations and are still almost 34 years later. 😊

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Heaven and earth, session 28

Very vivid session for me here. Not only for its very sound theological learnings (combined, as it’s the case since the first session, to cultural and […]

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 28Very vivid session for me […]

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:22:28 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 28

Very vivid session for me here. Not only for its very sound theological learnings (combined, as it’s the case since the first session, to cultural and cosmological contextualizations), but because I didn’t cease to think of my own, very personal references before my conversion and even after.

I was born and raised…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 27I’m coming back after a very […]

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:45:39 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 27

I’m coming back after a very busy week (and plus); my primary job (in a newspaper) makes me working long days at this time of the year — because the vacations and the touristic season are in full swing so there are many activities to cover and many coworkers to replace, and, I’ve tried a few courses on the AWKNG…

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Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:03:43 -0400

@justinhead ok good! I’ll keep this in mind. 😊

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Heaven and earth, session 26

Very dense session, or, as teacher Tim should sometimes call that, a “rabbit owl” at some levels. But if I try to resume it, I will retain some of these […]

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 26Very dense session, or, […]

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:29:50 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 26

Very dense session, or, as teacher Tim should sometimes call that, a “rabbit owl” at some levels. But if I try to resume it, I will retain some of these points:

– In Hebrew, there’s a close connection between the symbol and the reality. The fire in the bush in Exodus 3 is just a small taste of the fire on the…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 25When spirituality cross […]

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:09:49 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 25

When spirituality cross every scientific knowledge. We can even say when spirituality TRANSCENDS every geographical, cosmological, physical knowledge. This happens many times when we’re facing different stories that involve sonme kind of metaphysical imagery we don’t assume properly as humans; but they do exist in a…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 24From the beggining of the […]

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:08:05 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 24

From the beggining of the world, humanity have always tried to reach the skies by its own means, both physically and spiritually. If someone — after many attempts over the ages — has succeeded the first objective and built the first plane, it is quite different for the second. Maybe our deep, inner nature has…

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Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:37:17 -0400

Welcome with us! I’m sure you’re gonna have a very nice, powerful journey during your learning trip and you’ll discover many new things about our Lord and the Bible. So this is my prayer for you. Be blessed!

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Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 23This session might have […]

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:50:36 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 23

This session might have been called “The struggle of heavens”, or more exactly, “The struggle WITH heavens”. This is my own thinking after having eared and learned all that was wrapped within this about 1/2 hour where teacher Tim moved forward into the subject of the heavenly realm.

And, this is my own struggle. I…

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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:13:34 -0400

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 22It seems to be clear that […]

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 03:30:14 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 22

It seems to be clear that our relationship with God can be impacted by our cosmological views influence us even predispose us to a journey that will be more or less peaceful or turbulent. God reveals Himself depending of where we are in our own world view, and some circonstances let us knowing Him as peaceful,…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 21“The Word became flesh and […]

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:09:10 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 21

“The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

As Christians, we all assume that Jesus is the incarnation of the temple, the “most high place” of where comes the truth, the source of life that he is…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 21“The Word became flesh and […]

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:45:07 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 21

“The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

As Christians, we all assume that Jesus is the incarnation of the temple, the “most high place” of where comes the truth, the source of life that he is…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 20We’re now entering into the […]

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:34:45 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 20

We’re now entering into the creation of the human account in Genesis 2. And at the same time, the garden of Eden. Everything here has an importance, especially the central role of water.

First of all, the man (the adam in Hebrew) has been formed with springs that “welled up from the earth and watered the whole…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 19Very intense and […]

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:40:59 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 19

Very intense and significant session about where all creation is headed. I will retain three reflections.

First, and yet as I was talking about yesterday, the symbolic of monsters – dragons especially – surging from the waters and how, actually, it can refer to a cosmological and spiritual discussion with the…

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Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:57:38 -0400

There are a very large scope of translations especially in English and pretty more in French, which is my mother tongue. Just in French, I know or I’ve read more than 12 versions or translations, some of them very old (I found a few weeks ago a fax simile in PDF of the very first French translation of the Bible; huge and somewhat difficult to…

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Course: Creative Bible Study Methods

Lesson 3: Versions of the Bible

In this lesson they discussed the three original languages of the bible; Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. It […]

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Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:39:55 -0400

@Max I often read the Bible the same way as you. I’m used to poetry; it’s my favourite literary genre (I also published two poetry books, but this is not the subject here). The approach of teacher Tim is amazing. He gives us many clues to understand the Bible as the Jews before and after Jesus’ earthly ministry did. It gives for us a new and… Read more

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Heaven and earth, session 18

Do we have a biased idea of the symbolic meanings of many quotes of the Bible because of our modern translations? By modern, we can go back to the King […]

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Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:29:18 -0400

@erinlau And our own voices can be the monsters or the dragons in the story. Your comment is very accurate!

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Heaven and earth, session 17

According to the Bible, dragons are true, real creatures. They can fire us, kill us, eat us. They are evil, ugly and very dangerous, as we see in […]

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 18Do we have a biased idea of […]

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:18:28 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 18

Do we have a biased idea of the symbolic meanings of many quotes of the Bible because of our modern translations? By modern, we can go back to the King James version (for the English language) or the first Louis Segond’s translation at the end of the 19th century? How does the Bible represents the land to having four…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 17According to the Bible, […]

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:57:41 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 17

According to the Bible, dragons are true, real creatures. They can fire us, kill us, eat us. They are evil, ugly and very dangerous, as we see in many psalms, in the book of Job and in several prophetic writings (such as Isaiah) too.

But in Genesis 1, the tannin (that’s the Hebrew word for sea monsters and, by…

Martin Roy posted an update: Heaven and earth, session 16Does the creation account […]

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:01:42 -0400

Heaven and earth, session 16

Does the creation account in Genesis 1 could be a poetic representation of the Jewish temple? Does it make sense when we link it to the flood account in Genesis 7 through Genesis 8:2? What about the waters above and the waters below?

Very interesting scope in this session where we amplify these points with some…

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Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:35:36 -0400

@Max I think we miss out on the essential if we read too much Genesis 1 as a literal account. But not matter where we stand about that, there are several fundamental theological points that give us a good idea of the character of our God – His grace, His elegance, His love for His creation among others – so I agree with you. 😊

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Heaven and earth, session 15

What’s the purpose of Genesis 1? This fundamental question sets almost every session of the course. So far we’ve seen different aspects of the […]