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The Whole Armor of God
Contributor(s): Belt, C. David (Author)
ISBN: 1513643576     ISBN-13: 9781513643571
Publisher: Bentley Enterprises
OUR PRICE:   $8.55  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - Weapons
- History | Military - Ancient
- Religion | Biblical Commentary - New Testament - General
Physical Information: 0.13" H x 6" W x 9" (0.21 lbs) 62 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Paul was a Roman.
Yes, the apostle was raised as a devout Jew and later became a Christian, but he was a citizen of the Roman Empire. He lived in a Roman world. In his Epistle to the Ephesians, Paul wrote to an audience of Christians living in a Roman world, under Roman rule. They had all seen Roman legionnaires and were familiar with the armor and weapons carried by a typical Roman soldier. As contemporary Christians, we have a tendency to picture Sir Lancelot on his horse. We are using the wrong imagery. We miss the powerful symbolism of Paul's analogy. There is deep meaning in each of the symbols that Paul uses --symbols that we gloss over or fail entirely to understand--symbols that Paul's audience readily understood.

Contributor Bio(s): Belt, C. David: - C. David Belt was born in Evanston, WY. As a child, he lived and traveled extensively around the Far East. He served as an LDS missionary in South Korea and southern California (Korean-speaking). He graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Aerospace Studies. He served as a B-52 pilot in the US Air Force and as an Air Weapons Controller in the Washington Air National Guard. When he is not writing, he sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and works as a software engineer. He collects swords (mostly Scottish), axes, spears, and other medieval weapons and armor. He and his wife have six children and live in Utah with an eclectus parrot named Mork (who likes to jump on the keyboard when David is writing).