by Anthony F. Buzzard The central question in any investigation of salvation is the issue of the Gospel. The Gospel is offered in the Bible as […]

Various interpretations If you look up the lexical meaning of the word genea you’ll find how it’s one of the most indefinite terms in NT Greek. […]

“The predominant statement is that the kingdom of God is near, that it has drawn near…that it comes, that it will appear, that it is to […]

I want to remind the church of the command to include in your prayers all political leaders and really all those in government. Paul says to […]

I came upon a poem which reads more like an ode to the plant Evergreen by Rose Marie Juan Austin: Firm to the ground Standing tall […]

Greg Deuble       When Paul wrote to the Corinthians that the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus are “amongst things of primary importance,” the point under […]

Bill Wachtel In so-called “replacement theology,” which is very widespread, literal, ethnic, national Israel is no longer in view as God’s covenant people, but rather the […]

Sir Anthony F. Buzzard The contemporary way of inviting people to become Christians is unlike the biblical method. Today the invitation is rather vague: “Accept Jesus […]

eds. Brown, Fitzmeyer, Murphy, pp. 639, 640 Matthew 4:17: “From then on Jesus began… This introductory formula (used again in 16:21) solemnly inaugurates Jesus’ ministry. Repent […]

by E.R. Craven Now, remembering the close connection in the Jewish mind between the establishment of the Basileia, and the glorious coming of the Son of […]

From The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. “The predominant statement is that the kingdom of God is near, that it has drawn near…that it comes, […]

by Anthony F. Buzzard “…that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ” (Gal. 3:14). “May God give you and your descendants […]

In his multi-volume commentary on Romans the prominent Welsh Protestant scholar Martyn Lloyd-Jones bemoaned the fact that Christianity had lost the hope of the resurrection and […]

The historical Jesus and the theological Christ, Joseph Estlin Carpenter, 1912, p 76f. The Hebrew view of the world was essentially dramatic. It was under the […]

By Anthony Buzzard A NT expert writing about Jesus notes that: “he was not a particularly good political Messiah, but they claimed he was Son of […]

Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume 2, pp 618-19. In Alexandria, Origen opposed chiliasm [millennialism] as a Jewish dream, and spiritualized the symbolical language of […]

Thompson, The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David, pp 67-69. Alone with the twelve, whom he had just spoken of sending out […]

by Anthony Buzzard What, according to Jesus, was the purpose of his whole mission? What is the purpose of Christianity? I came to call sinners to […]

In 1523 Martin Luther, in his treatise On Governmental Authority, declared that the question of whether or not the Christian should bear arms on behalf of […]

by Anthony F. Buzzard There is a consensus among Christians that we are reckoned righteous by faith rather than by works of the law. But that […]