As it is clear from Scripture that human beings are endowed with a soul at the moment of conception, the question to which we now return is that of what happens when pre-born babies and infants die.
The question remains why our average expectancy today, even with all the advances of modern medicine, is still just over half of that which God ordained it to be after the flood?
Correctly understanding this passage is therefore crucial to upholding the truth that Christ, our supreme Lawgiver and Judge, can never be at odds with Himself.
Considering Jesus’ practice of only appointing men as apostles, there is a significant burden on those claiming Junia was a woman apostle. And that burden simply has not been met.
It was not that a husband’s authority and a wife’s submission were introduced as a result of the fall (as some egalitarians claim happened in Genesis 3:16), but rather that this hierarchical relationship was part of the created order and was now frustrated by the fall.
This book is worth it alone for the footnotes and references for further study. It is a resource every pastor and student of the Bible should have on his shelf.
Through millennia of history, God in Christ is bringing many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10), and clearly, we can see both biblically and experientially that this is a long process, often subtle, often hardly even visible, often frustrating, and always slow.