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292 General Index
Pascal’s Wager, 168–69, 176; argument
of, 169; the wager considered as
complex and challenging, 171–72;
the wager considered as simple and
misleading, 169–71
Paul, 12, 14, 32, 40, 63, 71–72, 90,
143, 191, 205, 208, 261n2, 285;
advice of to the Jews of Rome,
236; on apologetics, 277–78; as an
apostle by the command pf God,
122–24; apostolic authority of, 59–
60; on beholding the glory of God,
255; on being blinded to the glory
of Christ, 189–90; commission of,
146; on the divine inspiration of his
own words, 75; on the divine inspiration
of the Old Testament, 73–75;
on the glory of God, 206; on God’s
merciful work, 223; on the gospel
as the “word of Christ,” 198; on
the knowledge of God, 226; life
of as a compelling creation of the
Word of God, 273–75; at Mars
Hill, 221–22; mission of, 16; prayer
of for the Ephesians, 177; pursuing
Paul’s way of arguing, 275–77;
on the responsibility of believing,
197; on those claiming revelations
from God, 100; on the truth of
the gospel, 129–30; vigilance of
over his own words, 72–73; as a
writer inspired by the Holy Spirit,
60–61; on the writings of the Old
Testament as theopneustos (Greek:
“breathed out by God”), 74
Pensées (Pascal), 168, 171
Peter, 61, 63, 70, 100, 139, 160–64,
245, 271; belief of that words
matter, 71–72; his account of the
transfiguration, 246–48; on the
Holy Spirit and Scripture, 101
Pharisees, 102, 105–6, 237
Philo, 45
Piper, John, 21, 35–36, 167–68,
201–2; calling of to the pastorate,
30–32; on the eldership of one mind
and the whole counsel of God,
33–35; formal education of, 25; at
graduate school, 80; at the Grand
Canyon, 27–28; home life of as a
youth, 24–25; as pastor of Bethlehem
Baptist Church, 32–33; as a
teacher at Bethel College, 29–30;
view of the Bible and the view
through the Bible, 25–28, 33
Pitt, Brad, 215
Plummer, Alfred, 122
Pollock, John, 175, 181
praise, 213, 214, 217, 229; and belief,
243–244; of men, 244, 249, 256,
259
prophecy, 74–75, 93; cessation of,
44–45; fulfillment of, 229; gifts of,
60; the glorious nature of fulfilled
prophecy, 230–33; golden thread
of, 236–37; testimony of, 235n3;
the work of the Holy Spirit in securing
prophētikon logon (Greek: the
“prophetic word”), 75
prophets, 47–48, 52, 55, 93–94; false
prophets, 15; Jesus as the ideal
prophet, 93
Prowse, Michael, 215
Reece, Erik, 215
renewal, by the Word and the Spirit,
256–58; newness of our lives
brought about by the Word and the
hand of the Spirit, 258–59
repentance, 146
resurrection, 107–9
Roman History (Livy), 82
Satan, 117, 140, 157, 207; as the “god
of this world,” 146; liberation from
Satan’s blindness, 145–46; tempting
of Jesus by, 104–6
scholarship, dependence on, 272
Septuagint, 44, 45, 47, 48
Sermon on the Mount, 53, 54
Student’s Guide to Textual Criticism of
the Bible (Wegner), 83
Synod of Hippo, 65