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Time Travel Theology
The time travel view of justification by the blood of Christ is without merit. "mad." The view is that people who gained approval through faith under the Old Covenant, were fully justified by the "promised" blood of Christ. Their faith "looked forward" to Christ. This view is as mad as a mad hatter. In order for the time travel doctrine advocates to force their man-made doctrines into scripture they must resort to redefining words (i.e. draw always means compel rather than attract by... -
God can change.
"God is unvarying, reliable, constant, and perpetual. God never adds or subtracts from His character and emotions. They are constant and unmoving. We should be forever grateful that God is immutable, as this provides an assurance of His love and mercy toward us."
The above snippet copied from the internet provides an excellent hypothesis for defining the immutability of God.
However, to move from being an understanding formulated by man, we must verify these attributes are found in... -
Jesus is the new Jonah
In Matthew 12, Jesus makes a remarkable statement about his death and resurrection:
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him,
“Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
But He answered and said to them,
“An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign; and so no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet; for just as Jonah was in the stomach of the sea monster for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days... -
Irenaeus
People may know that Irenaeus, one of the earliest Church Fathers, proposed a theory of Recapitulation, whereby many of the matters of the Old Testament re-appear in the New. For example, Christ is the new Israel (Matthew 2:15). Some of his ideas work quite well, but he sometimes went too far. Can we see the origins of Mariolatry in this extract?
Mary the Virgin is found obedient, saying, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to your word. Luke 1:38 But Eve was... -
Saved Without Knowing the Resurrection?
In a class I discussed the Gospel and urged the students to make sure the resurrection of Christ was always part of their Gospel presentations/evangelism, because that doctrine/event is clearly part of Paul's Gospel in 1 Corinthians 15. Again, in the book of Acts the resurrection of Christ was part of the Gospel presentations recorded there.
Then I was asked by a student, "Can a person be saved without knowing about the resurrection?" I'm not sure I gave a sufficient answer. What would... -
John 11:47–53
John 11:47–53 Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs. If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the... -
Not open theism.
The eternal Son of God has as the Creator deliberatly limited some of His omnisciece.
John 1:18, ". . . No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. . . ."
Genesis 22:12, ". . . for now I know that thou fearest God, . . ."
Acts of the Apostles 1:7, ". . . And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. . . ."
Mark 13:32, ". . . But of that day and... -
Eternity and Time
ETERNITY AND TIME
To have a true Biblical understanding of salvation, we have to recognize that salvation involves both immanent (inherent, present) realities in the eternal mind of God, Whose mind never changes, as well as transient acts that take place in time according to God’s sovereign purpose and will (Ephesians 1:11). The salvation of sinners by the grace of God in Christ, based on His redeeming work in time to satisfy God’s justice for their sins, and to establish righteousness for... -
IT IS FINISHED!
John 19: 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Simple question or is it?... What was finished?... Brother Glen
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