Blog Search Results

The Early Concept of the Trinity: Tracing the Roots

...initarian quotes by Early Church Fathers | carm.org Where did the word “trinity” originate? | Bible.org The Triune God: A Historical Study of the Doctrine of the Trinity: Amazon.co.uk: Fortman, Edmund J: 9781579102234: Books The Birth of the Trinity: Jesus, God, and Spirit in New Testament and Early Christian Interpretations of the Old Testament: Amazon.co.uk: Bates, Matthew W.: 9780198779247: Books The Trinity (Guides to theology) by Olson, Roger E (amazon.co.uk) Who was Clement of Rome? | GotQuestions.org Definition of the Trinity by the Early Churches (christian-history.org) Trinitarianism in the Early Church — The Gospel Coalition...

Rob Bell's “Love Wins” (Review)

...nking and quotes Jesus' words, and a few other scriptures, which leads to more questions. Therein lies the purpose of this book – not for Rob to push you to believe what he does, but to get you to question and really think about the things we say we believe. Bell then moves on to heaven. Unless you've really studied the Bible on Heaven, this chapter will likely smash a lot of cultural ideas you hold without you really realising it – the same can be said about the the chapter after which deals with hell. Prepare for an eye-opener, and a lot of "Gospel Truth" that has somehow got lost, changed, misrepresented and mixed up in Medieval tradition and imagery ov...

Four Blood Moons and everyone loses their minds

...ng by the quotes in the Huff Post article, that this is more about cashing in on the times, rather than trying to predict the signs of the times. "A string of books have been published surrounding the event, with authors referring to a Bible passage ... “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord,” Joel 2:31 says" "In his book, Hagee says something will happen to the nation of Israel due to the tetrad ... Hagee writes that every time a tetrad occurs on Jewish feast days, something traumatic and “world-changing” happens to Israel." "This time, Hagee suggests that a Rapture will occur...

The Coming of Jesus: Daniel's 70 Weeks

...all other quotes are NRSV), as it keeps the original wording of "sevens" instead of using "weeks", which I find makes the grammar of the sentence flow a little better: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’  It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. This in total means that there are to be 483 years from when the word "goes out" to start restoration on Jerusalem. I point this out because of the way the English translations make the initial seven and the sixty-two sevens appear as separate events...

The Coming of Jesus: Coming on the clouds

...Testament quotes to back up that view, such as 2 Peter 3:4,9 which says: ...saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? [...] The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance. Though the dating and authorship of 2 Peter is doubted in academic circles, if we assume that Peter did write this letter, and did so before his death, then it had to be written before 70 AD which is when the Jewish War was happening and the Temple destroyed. Which is what Jesus used as the focal point in his reference to his 'coming'. You can't use a quote written prior to 70A...

Lent: Day 11 - Ignatius to Polycarp

...Ignatius quotes Paul in his letters, it seems strange now that there has been a subtle change with regards to marriage which departs slightly from Paul’s instruction. Maybe this is a rule formed from the inference in what Paul says in 1 Cor 7 about widows who want to marry again, but “only in the Lord”, ie. to other believers; or more explicitly, from 2 Cor 6:14 where he instructs that believers should not be “unequally yoked” (or “mismatched”) with unbelievers. But even when taking this into consideration, requiring permission from the bishop is a new one. After this there is a shift of audience in the letter as it appears to go from talking per...