The French Bishops’ Conference slammed the tableau as a “mockery and derision of Christianity.” Mike Johnson, the right-wing Evangelical Speaker of the House in the United States Congress, decreed the performance “shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world.” The event’s arti...
The significance of this effort is that it is the first time that Jesus’s life has been objectively analyzed by a team of highly qualified reviewers. As such, it remains the best effort to date to ascertain the true historical Jesus, stripped of the myths that have been attached to him ...
My favorite example right now is Romans 1, which provides a supposed account of how same-sex attraction occurs. That passage is demonstrably wrong, and thus it has proven itself to be a very difficult problem for many of the fundamentalists to whom I’ve mentioned this. There are usually ...
The Church is both a divine institution and a human institution. It is divine because it has been built by God himself (refer to I Corinthians 3). It is human because, ever since Jesus’ ascension, the Church on earth has been led by men—not by men alone, for the Holy Spirit is w...
The story of Horus was also blended with the story of Ra since they were both sun gods. Ra was born to a virgin mother who had been impregnated by a divine spirit. There are some common themes between the story of Horus and the story of Jesus Christ. Horus had a magical birth at ...
2) We are called to make every effort to live in peace with others ( Romans 12:18). 3) We are called to listen more than we talk, and to be slow to anger (James 1:19). We have our work cut out for us, to be sure. But think of the benefits to society if every follower ...
Jesus must have felt like this when he wept over Jerusalem, knowing it would soon be destroyed by the Romans because of their unbelief. So, God, being a just and holy God, has no choice but to bring his judgment on America. He has allowed us to degenerate into the End Time’s Sodom...
By contrast the Romans are presented as models of civility and justice. Pontius Pilate, for example, makes every effort not to condemn Jesus, despite Jewish demands. This was a politically correct account during a period when thousands of Jews were being crucified for rebelling against Rome, and...
(Homily 13 on Romans) St. Macarius the Great ca. 4th cent. The soul is neither by nature divine nor by nature part of the darkness of wickedness, but is a creature, intellectual, beautiful, unique, and admmirable. It is a beautiful likeness and image of God. Into that likeness the ...
The penalty for sin is death (Romans 6:23). Because sin has corrupted the entire human race, death, chaos, and all kinds of evil are all around us. We were created to be born into a perfect world, but because of sin we are born into a corrupted world. We were created to have pe...