Category: eschatology
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Increase Not Decrease: God Grants the Role
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“You Yourselves bear me witness that I said ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before Him’.” (John 3:28) Of course John’s comment is in light of his ministry. For he says that he was to announce the Christ because he is not the Christ: his role was to prepare the way.…
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Psalm 110 Prezi
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Quotables: Douglas Moo on the Rapture
Every now and then I like posting something incisive that was written in the past because it speaks so well into the present. The sweet thing about this is that these guys, who are often waved away today, have dealt with a lot of the same issues while remaining simultaneously (by the modern mind) ignored.…
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Philosophy Fridays: No May21st = No God?
Every now and then, on a Friday, I’ll step into the deep waters of Philosophy, ramble on about some idea and maybe even interact with something I might be reading. Most of the time, a real philosopher could probably read my drivel and speak into it offering a corrective—but for now I’ll speak from ignorance.…
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When Is The Rapture?
Folk have been setting dates on the Rapture for a long time. If you check the inerrant internet repository of all knowledge, you’ll find dates set for March 21, 1844, 1914, 1981, 1988, 1994 (Harold Camping’s first date), 2011 (Harold Camping’s second date), and even 2060 (Isaac Newton). But this is only recent history. Before…
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What Is The Rapture?
If you’ve driven down certain roads, you’ve might have seen signs that said “The Rapture is on X” where X can be any date: specifically, this Saturday, May 21st 2011. A certain Christian by the name of Harold Camping has put his pen to paper once again to set another date for this event and,…
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Prayer Mondays: Come
Barring my faulty memory (and if I’m not lazy) I want to post prayers on Monday from all over Church History and then throughout the modern day, and then my own. This one comes from the apostle John, and from all Christians, in response to Jesus’ own words “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come,…
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Ah, Gehenna: Rey Didn’t Start The Fire
In my post on Gehenna (part of my Hellish Week) I made a statement that I had read in several places and which needs to be retracted because it is historical dubious. Here is what I said: What they forget to mention is that the site wasn’t merely for garbage; it was a place for…
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A Hellish Week
This will serve as the series home for my posts on Hell. Prayer Monday: An Unanswered Prayer Quotable: Irenaeus On the Real Heaven and Hell Philosophical Responses to the Denial of Hell (Hell? Oh!) An examination of Sheol in the Old Testament (What the Sheol?) An examination of Gehenna, Hades (etc.) in the New Testament…
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What About Hell I Don’t Know
Textually, as I covered in a couple of posts before this, I must affirm a literal hell which consists of judgment, separation from God, punishment, eternality and should be rightfully shunned. I think it is dangerous to say the place doesn’t exist when the volume of Scripture teeters with the weight of the matter. I…