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The Gospel of Jeffrey Dahmer

There’s a new Netflix documentary out at the moment which has hit the news recently about the infamous serial killer Jeffery Dahmer. I haven’t watched it, but I knew of him as a serial killer though I didn’t realise just how horrific his crimes were until I read the Wikipedia article about him! Not for the faint of heart, that’s for sure. But this post isn’t really about Dahmer, not entirely, but rather the reactions to some recent social media posts about him and the (often vitriol) responses they’ve got. Here’s one example: Dahmer is probably in heaven and experiencing eternal joy. If this bothers you, you don’t know the depths of your o...

The Deity of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew - Part 2

Matthew's theme - The divine presence of Jesus This is a guest post by “KingsServant”, see Part 1 here. Having covered Matthew’s introduction to his gospel in his nativity account, we will now consider the way Matthew “bookends” the gospel by beginning his work with the promise of God dwelling with his people (fulfilled in the incarnation) and ending it in the same way with Jesus’ comforting promise never to leave his followers. This theme of Matthew begins with his quotation of Isaiah 7:14, which we have already analysed in the previous article with regard to how it reveals Matthew’s teaching that Jesus is God. As noted before, in Matthew...

Does Jesus mean Hail Zeus?

...: http://biblehub.com/greek/1093.htm Latin “Sus”: http://latinlexicon.org/definition.php?p1=1015706 Pegasus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus#Etymology http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pegasus http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Pegasus.html http://www.behindthename.com/name/pegasus Dionysus: http://www.behindthename.com/name/dionysos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus#Etymology http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/dionysus.html Ephesus: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ἔφεσος#Ancient_Greek http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Ephesus http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Ephesus.html#...

Lent, Lament and Lockdown

...Lent is a time of self denial and of giving things up, and also a period of lament in the lead up to Easter where we remember the Passion and death of Christ before we celebrated the glorious resurrection.  Often this is a personal affair on the discipline side of things, even if it's a practice shared within your church community, but this year has been so very different. With the outbreak of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, the whole world has slowly gone into lockdown country by country, creating a strange sort of global “Lent” where everyone is having to practice self control and self denial. This has been underpinned with a sense of lament at the way thi...

The Coming Kingdom of the Son of Man

...y: http://biblehub.com/commentaries/benson/matthew/10.htm  Various Commentaries: http://biblehub.com/commentaries/matthew/10-23.htm Jackson, Wayne. "What Is the Meaning of Matthew 10:23?" ChristianCourier.com. Access date: January 29, 2017. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/668-what-is-the-meaning-of-matthew-10-23 Norman Geisler: “This Generation” or “This Race” Will Not Pass Away? http://americanvision.org/1689/norman-l-geisler-generation/ List of 101 time indicators throughout the NT: http://www.preteristarchive.com/Hyper/2002_green_time-indicators.html  http://www.theopedia.com/dispensationalism http://www.theopedia.com/pr...

Unveiling the Trinity: Exploring the Nature of Jesus and the Incarnation

...I recently received a question about the nature of Jesus and the incarnation, which delves into the mystery of the Trinity: "Sorry to trouble you, but I have only one question: Is God the Father and Jesus His Son the same, God Himself in the flesh when He walked the earth? I am still struggling with this concept. When Jesus asked His Father, was He essentially talking to Himself?" Thanks so much for the question, and it is a good question when asked genuinely. It is obviously a very deep and complex topic that covers a lot of Scripture (and history) to fully make sense of, but I’ll try and keep this brief to cover the key points. To gain a better unders...