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The Coming of Jesus: Coming on the clouds

...on with a human form) 'coming with the clouds of heaven' which has all sorts of implications that we often miss by either not knowing much of the Old Testament, or because we're not Jewish with a better understanding of these prophecies. As a small note too, it's also these visions of Daniel that Revelation in the New Testament takes a lot of its imagery from and describes the same events – I will be touching on that more in the next part in this series. Often times, our thoughts on these phrases or this kind of prophetic language, is coloured by our upbringing or teaching from a church, or even by secular culture which has taken this imagery and "hollywoodi...

Raised in the Heavenlies!

...the same human Jesus they once knew (2 Cor 5:16). Despite eating and drinking (Luke 24:39-43) and seeming the same as before, he now appeared in their midst behind locked doors (John 20:19); travelled with people in an unrecognisable form – or could control other’s perceptions of him until required (Luke 24:15-16), and the could also disappear in the blink of an eye (Luke 24:31)! Christ was raised physically, initially, but then his body was different. Glorified, not human. Origen captures this concept well in his book Contra Celsus; “After his resurrection, Christ existed in an intermediate state, as it were. For it was somewhere between the phys...

Lent Day 37: Leo the Great: Letter XXVIII (called the "Tome")

...natures, human and divine, united in the one divine Person of the Son of God. When 3 June, 449 AD You can find today’s reading on page 182 here: lentfatherscomplete.pdf   Today's reading is a defence of the faith against certain things that a priest called Eutyches was teaching, written by Pope Leo I. Eutyches was speaking against the teaching of the Archbishop of Constantinople, Nestorius, who said that the human experiences of Christ were only part of the ‘the man’ which was distinct from the ‘God the Word’ part of Jesus. To combat this, Eutyches went too far in the other direction and declared that Christ was "a fusion of human and divine el...

It's no longer about land!

...ne from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! Galatians 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything! As Peter also wrote, those who believe in and follow Christ Jesus are "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people" (1 Peter 2:9-10), Israel was once the vine and symbolically referred to as such (Ps 80:8-9; Joel 1:7) but we are now grafted into the tru...

What does the word "Catholic" mean?

...8/article/human-tradition-vs-apostolic.html Alexandria, Clement of. The Stromata. Ed. Kevin Knight. n.d. 2021 July 2021. . Augustine. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series 1, Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists. Ed. Philip Schaff. 2. Vol. 4. Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1995. BBC News. Catholic Church child sexual abuse scandal. 26 February 2019. 29 July 2021. . Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. Apostolic succession. 3 January 2020. 29 July 2021. . Brit...

How Old Was Jesus When He Died? A Fresh Look At The Historical Clues

...complete human experience, and by living longer, he sanctified each stage of life: He came to fulfill all righteousness, and for this reason did not reject the common human experience, but sanctified every age by His likeness to it. He came as an infant to sanctify infancy, as a child to sanctify childhood, as a youth to sanctify youth, and as an elder to sanctify old age. He therefore passed through every stage of life, so that He might be a perfect teacher for all, not merely in words but in age, sanctifying even the elderly because He reached their state as well. (Against Heresies 2.22.6) Historical Anchors: Birth, Pilate, and the Crucifixion Window Now t...