Luke 24.13-49: The meaning of the Sacred Scriptures was a preoccupation of Luke’s Gospel from the start. It was the burden of Jesus’ first sermon at the synagogue in Nazareth, when he gave his own reading of the Book of Isaiah. It was the subject of Jesus conversation with Moses and...
and we know the dangers of comfort and futility–we are warned of these things in our Scriptures. The Christian path is one which fights against this futility and points to the one true Hope: that of our savior.
“There are many explanations,” writes Ahmed, “but one perhaps stands out: the West’s abject dependence on terror-toting Muslim regimes, largely to maintain access to Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asian oil and gas resources.” Since 2013, the Turkish government has beenbuilding a ...
I’m archiving an English translation of theWuzhi pianbyThomas Clearly, with explanations by the Qing-era Daoist scholarLiu Yiming(1734-1821). Fig. 1 – A print of Zhang Boduan (a.k.a. Zhang Ziyang,張紫陽)from the Ming-eraTraces of Immortals and Buddhas(Xianfo jizong, 仙佛奇蹤) (lar...
Buddhism might be the least violent, but then there are the Quakers and Jehovah’s Witnesses…. Christians might have the most material wealth overall, but that seems like it might be contrary to their own scriptures…. Jews seem to have survived as a people for a long time despite facing...
It makes sense to assume the rest of the Scriptures are equally accurate, since there is no evidence to the contrary and all the available evidence supports Scripture. Assessment: Where are we going with all this? The Bible’s accuracy is not limited to history, geography, science or medicine...
In the New Testament Scriptures there is a fuller development of redemptive truth, but one God speaks in both dispensations, and what He speaks agrees with what He is. Wherever and whenever God appears to men, He acts like Himself. Whether in the Garden of Eden or the Garden of Gethsemane...
[2]Robert Alter points out that the form that this takes at Genesis 2:17 is the form used elsewhere in the Scriptures for a death sentence, and renders it “doomed to die” (Genesis: Translation and Commentary[New York and London: Norton, 1996] 8). ...
Many of Barbeyrac's arguments and quotations are taken from our old Puritan writers, who admitted that a kind of gambling, under the designation of lots, was sanctioned by the Scriptures; though only to be used to decide matters connected with religion and the church. The able authoress of...
I thought it might be good to take another look at those Scriptures used by those say the Bible teaches that a believer can lose his salvation. In 2nd Thessalonians 2:3 Paul writes, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling awa...