Theology
Pentecost: Alive In The Spirit Of Hope
Alive In The Spirit Of Hope Third Sunday after Pentecost Proper 5 June 5, 2005 Hosea 5:15–6:6 Psalm 50:7-15 Romans 4:13-25 Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Outward Behavior, Inward Attitude During his earthly ministry, Jesus constantly challenged the traditional systems of religion, including those that defined who was “acceptable” and who was not. Jesus never backed away […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
Ken Smith wrote: [snip] If Don has difficulties because I don’t mention Genesis specifically, I’m sorry, but I refuse to distinguish between Genesis and the rest of Scripture. Don: “How Are We Meant to Understand *Genesis*? Note the topic. It seems like Ken wanted to deal with anything but the topic. My post of May […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
This is my second response to Don’s posting of 21 May 2005 in which he made various claims about cosmology. It covers the last part of Don’s post where he was commenting on my statements about the lack of any mention of God in technical works on cosmology, but that God was mentioned in a […]
THE TWO-NATURE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST
Generally speaking there have been two ways of describing the nature of Christ. One way follows the school of Alexandria and teaches that Christ is God living and acting humanly; the other follows the school of Antioch and holds that Christ is a man in whom God lives and acts, or a man fully indwelt […]
You May Be A Fundamentalist Atheist If…
You May Be A Fundamentalist Atheist If… This list was originally compiled by GakuesiDon and has been added to and updated by Tekton Apologetics Ministries. Existence of God You became an atheist when you were 10 years old, based on ideas of God that you learned in Sunday School. Your ideas about God haven’t changed […]
Jesus’ atoms in your body?
One netfriend asked… How many of the original atoms present at your birth are with you now? And then another… How many of the original atoms have been lost forever? And another responded: None, of course, unless they were radioactive. But you will have very few of the atoms you were born with or gained […]
Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism
A liberal’s response to C S Lewis’ “Rowland Croucher” wrote: Then four writers may be cited: Bishop Spong, Dr Barbara Thiering, A.N.Wilson, and A.D. Crossan… They are not all the same. Thiering supports a Pesher reading of the text, Spong a Midrashic reading of the texts …. they therefore come to very different conclusions. A […]
The Jews in God’s Program
‘And don’t think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as father. Being a descendant of Abraham is neither here nor there. Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen. What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it’s deadwood, it goes on the fire.’ John the Baptist in Matthew 3, […]
Image of God
” Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same – the image of God.” — St. John of Kronstadt
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
Ken Smith wrote: A small contribution to just what evangelical scholars believe the Bible teaches about creation and the flood. People might be interested in a related story about commentaries on Genesis. About six years ago, after I had started working in Chaplaincy Services at the University of Queensland, another group of first-year students complained […]
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