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July 29, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at July 29, 2020
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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 […]
July 29, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at July 29, 2020
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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, […]
June 12, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at June 12, 2020
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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 […]
June 12, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at June 12, 2020
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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 […]
June 12, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at June 12, 2020
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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 […]
May 11, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at May 11, 2020
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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 […]
May 11, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at May 11, 2020
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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 […]
May 11, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at May 11, 2020
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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 […]
April 19, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at April 19, 2020
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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 […]
April 19, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at April 19, 2020
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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 […]
April 19, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at April 19, 2020
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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 […]
February 22, 2020
Published by Carlos Xavier at February 22, 2020
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Will Israel be the Head of Nations or part of a League of Nations? Isa 11.11-16; 19.16-24; cp. Ps 47.8-9. In that time Israel will be […]