NEW TESTAMENT SPECIAL TOPICS
By
Dr. Bob Utley, Retired Professor of Hermeneutics
The following Special Topics are taken from our verse by verse commentaries. They deal with
1. Word studies
2. Theological issues
3. Hermeneutical issues
4. Cultural issues
5. Geographical issues
6. “Hot button” issues in the church today
We hope this will be a quick way for you to access these topics.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
A
“Abiding” in John’s
Writings
Abomination of Desolation
Abound (peristeuō)
Adoptionism
Adultery
Age
This Age and the Age to Come
Alcohol – Alcoholism
Almsgiving
Amen
Ancient Near East Weights and Volumes
Angels in Paul’s Writings
Anointing in the Bible
Any Moment Return of Christ vs. Not Yet
Apocalyptic
Literature
Apostasy (aphistēmi)
Apostle’s Names
Archē
Ark of the
Covenant
Arminianism
Ascension
Assurance (also see “Christian
Assurance”)
Author/Leader
Authority (exousia)
Baptism
Barnabas
Be Made Strong
Believe (noun, verb, adjective)
Believe (pisteuō) in John
Believers’ Inheritance
Bernice
Blameless
Boasting
Bob’s Evangelical
Biases
Body and Spirit
Boldness (parrhēsia)
Breath, Wind, Spirit
Burial Practices
Burial Spices
Called
Calvinism
Canon (Hebrew)
Chart of the Apostles Names
The Christian and Peace
Christian Assurance
Christian Freedom vs Christian Responsibility
Christian
Growth
Christianity Is Corporate
Church (ekklesia)
Coins in Use in
Palestine in Jesus’ Day
Comfort
Coming On the Clouds
Confession
Conscience
City of Corinth
Cornerstone
Covenant
Curse (anathema)
Date of the Exodus
That Day
The Dead, Where Are They? (Sheol/Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus)
Degrees of Rewards and Punishment
The Demonic (unclean spirits)
Destroy,
Ruin, Corrupt (phtheirō)
Destruction (apollumi)
The Disciples’ Questions
Divisions of the Hebrew Bible
Does Any Believer Ever Fall Away?
Use of
“Door” in the NT
Eastern Literature
Edify
Effective Prayer
Elder
Election
Election/Predestination and
the Need for A Theological Balance
End or Full (telos)
Eschatology
Eternal
Evidence (NT) of One’s Salvation
Exodus 20:12-16
Exorcism
Faith (pistis)
Falling From Grace?
Fasting
Father
Fatherhood of God
Fire
Firstborn
Flesh (sarx)
Foolish (terms)
Forever (Greek idiom)
Forever
(‘olam)
Form (tupos)
Forty-Two Months
Gamaliel
Gehenna
(Where Are the Dead?)
Generous/Sincere (haplotes)
Glory (apaugasma)
Glory (doxa)
Gnosticism
God Described As Human (anthropomorphism)
God’s
Plan for Redemption
Government
The Greatest Commandment
Greek Terms for
Testing and Their Connotations
Grieving Rites
Guarantee
Hades
Head (kephalē)
Healing
Heart
The Heavens and the Third Heaven
Herod and His Family
Herodians
Holy
The Holy One
Homosexuality
Hope
Horns Used By
Israel
The Hour
Human Speech
Hunger
Hypocrites
Illumination
Inspiration
Intercessory Prayer
Insights to Exodus 20:12-16
Interpreting Parables
Is Healing God’s Plan for Every Age?
Iscariot
James, the Half Brother
of Jesus
Jesus and the Spirit
Jesus As High Priest
The Any-Moment
Return of Jesus vs The Not Yet
Jesus the Nazarene
Jesus’ Post-resurrection
Appearances
Jesus’ Return
John 1 Compared to I John 1
John 6 (The
Lord’s Supper in John)
John’s Use of Believe with prepositions
Judging
(Should Christians Judge One Another?)
The Kerygma of the Early
Church
The Kingdom of God
Koinōnia (fellowship)
Kosmos (in Paul)
Ktisis
Laying on of Hands
Leaven
Logos (Word)
The Lord’s Supper in John 6
The Lord’s Supper
(order of Passover Service)
Magic
Maranatha
Messiah
Monotheism
Mosaic Law and the Christian
Moses’ Authorship of
the Pentateuch
Mount Sinai (Location)
Murder
Mystery in the Gospels
Mystery in Paul’s Writings
Names for Deity
The
Name of the Lord
Natural Resources
Nazarene
Nazarite Vow
The Need to
Persevere
NT Prophecy
NT Terms for Christ’s Return
The Night Trial of
Jesus
Null and Void (katargeō)
OT Titles of the Special Coming One
Parables, How to
Interpret
Passover (Order of Service)
Paul’s Admonitions to Slaves
Paul’s Legal Defense (common elements in Acts)
Paul’s Prayer, Praise, and
Thanksgiving
Paul’s Use of Huper Compounds
Paul’s View of the Mosaic Law
Peace (different senses)
Peace and War
Perseverance
Personal Evil
Personhood of the Spirit
Peter
Pharisees
Pontius Pilate
Poured Out
Practical Guidelines for How Believers Can Know Their Gift
Praetorian Guard
Prayer (see Effective Prayer and Intercessory Prayer)
Prayer, Unlimited Yet
Limited
Predestination
Predestination (Calvinism) vs Human Free Will
(Arminianism)
Prophecy (NT)
Prophecy (OT)
Punishment (see Degrees of
Rewards and Punishment)
Qualifications for Female Church Workers
Racism
Ransom/Redeem
Reigning in the Kingdom of God
The Remnant, Three Senses
Renew
(anakainōsis)
Repentance
Resurrection
Rewards (see Degrees of Rewards
and Punishment)
Righteousness
Sabbath
Sadducees
Saints
Salvation (Greek verb tenses)
Salvation (OT Term)
Sanctification
Sanhedrin
Satan
Schemes
Scribes
Seal
Second Coming
Send
(apostellō)
Servant Leadership
Shadow As a Metaphor for Protection and
Care
Sheol (see Hades, Gehenna)
Should Christians Judge One Another?
Sin Unto Death
Silas – Silvanus
Slaves – Slavery
“Sons of.,”
Son of
God
sons of God in Genesis 6
Son of Man
Sophists
Speech
The
Spirit and Jesus
Spirit in the Bible
Spirit (pneuma) In the NT
Stand
(histēmi)
Submission (hupotassō)
Symbolic Numbers in Scripture
Tartarus (see Sheol)
The Ten Commandments
Terms for Foolish People
Terms for the Second Coming
Testing (peirazō and dokimazō)
Textual Criticism
Thanksgiving
That Day
Timothy
Tithing
Titles for the Special Coming One
Titus
Tribulation
The Trinity
Trust (faith)
Truth (the concept) in John’s Writings
True
(the term) in John’s Writings.
Truth in Paul’s Writings
Typology
Twelve
The Two “Cities” of Isaiah
The Unpardonable Sin
Use of “Commandment” in John’s Writings
War in Heaven
Weakness
Wealth
What Is Sin Unto Death?
Where Are The Dead?
(Sheol/Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus)
Why Do Christians Suffer?
The Will
(thelēma) of God
Wine and Strong Drink
Witnesses to Jesus
Women in the
Bible
Women in Ministry
Women Keep Silent
The Women Who Followed Jesus
Women Who Traveled With Jesus and His Disciples