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 ...
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...
It's the date of the winter solstice and the date adopted by the church as the birth date of Jesus Christ. The December 25 date is given even though the Bible says the shepherds were in their fields when Jesus was born, meaning Jesus had to have been born in the spring (Luke 2:8)...
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 ...
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...
Christianity arose during a period when the world of the Jews was experiencing brutality under the rule of the Romans and immorality brought about by the Roman’s culture. Also, as an attempt to save the Jewish people, frequent movements of the Jews led to the development of Christianity. ...
(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...
But because he could not pass over a district of the Romans that was not his, lest this occasion should provoke bitter enmity, he wrote a letter and sent it to the Messiah by Hanan the archivist. He went out from Edessa on the fourteenth of Adar, entered Jerusalem on the twelfth of ...