Tomas Samuel

  The Understanding of the meaning of the word Hesed   Psalm 90:14  O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness , that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. One of the most fascinating words in the Bible is the word hesed . It is one of the dominant OT words for how God deals with us, and without question the most frequently praised attribute of God: “for his  hesed  endures forever!” Dr. Terry Rude, my first year Hebrew prof., defined it as God’s ‘loyal lovingkindness.’ Of its ± 248 occurrences, the KJV translates it mercy 149x, the NASB – lovingkindness 176x, the NIV – love, ESV – steadfast love, NET Bible – loyal love, NLT – faithful love. As Dr. John Oswalt said in his Aldersgate Forum lectures on holiness last week: this is a very difficult word to translate. In fact, four Ph.D. dissertations in the last century were dedicated to determining the meaning(s) of this word. I would like in this summary to look at the word hesed from...

The nature of sin is not that we fail to succeed in being equal to God, it is the failure to ascend to the capacity that we are  able  as human beings.    Sin is a choice, an avoidable choice, through the grace of God. If it is avoidable, then we are accountable.  Sin as an act of the will is to be separated from sins of ignorance, or mistakes. With the exception of including "ignorance" as a sin that always carries the same damaging effect as willful sin, the following definitions seems to follow along with the points of this article.  So what is original sin and inherited depravity that everyone talks about? Original Sin . The Scriptures teach that the presence of death in the world, with all its attendant evils, is due to man's sin.  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but ...