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Gerry Beimers

Gerry Beimers is a Bible translation advisor currently wrapping up the translation of the Bible into Solomon Islands Pijin. That translation is due to be published in July 2008. He’s also working on his PhD in linguistics. His other main area of interest is in thinking about Christian education.

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is the OT a metaphor for this age?

By Gerry Beimers | Published: October 8, 2007

In a comment to the post God is love. But what is love? Reinhard said, “the OT does several important things. It acts as a metaphor for this age (the time between Christ’s ascention and return),…”
I have a great difficulty with this statement about the Old Testament being a metaphor for this age. Sure, there [...]

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the parable of the three servants - part 1

By Gerry Beimers | Published: September 14, 2007

Matthew 25:14-30 (New International Version)
This post is going to happen in two parts. That’s because you may have this parable figured out and so I don’t need to write. It’s also because I’ll lose the file if I leave it too long and I don’t have time to finish writing it at this point in [...]