The two eyes of history — time and place or chronology and geography — must be constantly focused on the events for an understanding appreciation of the matter.

Beaman, Old Testament Archaeology,    p. 1.

Much misunderstanding of the Bible arises from modern ignorance of the circumstances and surroundings of the incidents described in the Bible.

Beaman, Old Testament Archaeology,   p. 1.

      Adam had no leaning toward sin and yet chose sin freely; Jesus had no leaning toward sin but had the weaknesses incident to the fall. Jesus’ temptation was, therefore, more realistic than was Adam’s. In it all, however, Jesus was able not to sin. From the viewpoint of His deity, He was not able to sin; from the viewpoint of His humanity, He was able not to sin.

      Yes, there is a paradox here; but not so keen a paradox as the union of two natures — divine and human — which is the heart of His incarnation, in one person. Why let the smaller paradox drive you to hesitancy about the miracle of Jesus Christ? If you must stumble at the supernatural, take the greatest miracle of all — God-Man, the union of God and man in one person.

      If one would understand the temptation of Jesus, he must think of Adam in Eden. Jesus came as the Second Adam to undo the fell work of Adam in Eden. His humanity was on trial, not His deity.

Beaman, " The Self-Emptying of Christ Jesus,"
Mid-America Baptist Theological Journal Vol. 4 (Fall 1980) p. 27-28.

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Modern pursuits, as biology, astronomy, and space flights, have made more vast the vastness which overwhelmed and silenced Job. But modern man has not learned the self-confessed insignificance of Job.

Beaman, Job: Why the Godly Suffer
revised edition 1971, p. 34.

Beaman, " The Self-Emptying of Christ Jesus,"
Mid-America Baptist Theological Journal Vol. 4 (Fall 1980) p. 20.

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     Four chief anthropological problems concern the modern Biblical student — the unity of the race, the cradle of the human race, the longevity of man, and the first state of man.

Beaman, Old Testament Archaeology,    p. 9.

     Once the parents of a mentally retarded boy came to Dr. Beaman and said, “He wants to be a Christian but we’re not sure that he understands. Can you talk to him and find out?” Dr. Beaman took from his pocket several coins. He made sure that there was a very shiny penny among them. He told the boy that he could have any coin he wanted. The boy chose the penny. Dr. Beaman concluded that the boy did not have the mental capacity to choose for himself. He chose what was shiny, and not according to value.

“Revelation means something divinely made known. It could not and would not have been otherwise known unless God revealed it”

Beaman, Systematic Theology Notes.

     Man's body and soul are a unit functionally. The body is the instrument through which the soul expresses itself. The five natural senses are the functional aspect of the ego through the body. As to existence or being, the body is not necessary.

     The soul can exist apart from the body but functions ideally through the body. But for sin that functioning would be perfect in this state of existence. When the result of sin brings decay to the body, this does not put the soul out of existence. The soul functions as a conscious entity outside and apart from the body. This is the disembodied state. This is not a mere theory. In the case of the man raised back to life by Elisha, the soul had gone from the body. In the case of our Lord, He committed His soul into the hands of His father. Neither case abstracts the concretely taught, namely, that the spirit goes on after the body is fallen and cannot function.

     This unity between the body and soul functionally goes on forever. That is why redemption contemplates the resurrection of the body.

Beaman, Old Testament Archaeology,   p. 24-25.

      When one considers that Jesus emptied Himself to the point of being made in the likeness of sinful flesh or partook of the weaknesses incident to fallen man, then His sinless life appears more clearly as an achievement. He was not fenced around; He felt keenly the bite and the power of sin but never yielded to it for a moment. Sin found in Him no peg on which to hang its tinsel garments. His sinlessness, considered in its ultimate outcome, was achieved through struggle with temptation.

Beaman, "The Self-Emptying of Christ Jesus,"
Mid-America Baptist Theological Journal Vol. 4 (Fall 1980) p. 29.

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