Scripture reminds us that we are all undeserving of God’s goodness, for “There is no one righteous, not even one... for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:10, 23). If God dealt with us strictly based on fairness, we would face His righteous judgment ...
November 1, 2024ScriptureKnowledge of God I came across this quote the other day in an essay on Moses: And now we recognize for the first time just how deeply shaped Moses has become by the new story into which he has been inducted, and by his convictions about the character of the God...
God's Mighty Speech-Acts: The Doctrine of Scripture Today "This is a book on theological hermeneutics. It is a plea for being hermeneutical about theology and for being theological about hermeneutics. It is an argument for treating the questions of God, Scripture and hermeneutics as one problem...
But as the LORD says through Jeremiah, what a man should glory in is that he understands and knows the true and living God. Therefore, my sentiment is as Elihu when he began to speak to Job and his friends – a belly as wine with no vent. It is clear you are familiar with the ...
We have the authoritative and superb reflections of St. Vincent of Lerins on this subject: Owing to the depth of Holy Scripture, all do not accept it in one and the same sense, but one understands its words in one way, another in another; so that it seems to be capable of as many...
poor or of the low classes of society … but rather … it was being a follower of Christ … of having eyes to see and ears to hear His word … and of acting on the light and knowledge received … and of radiating this pure love of God to one’s fellow men. It was radiating ...
1 Cor. 14:2 – Paul says “For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.” Describing these utterances as “mysteries” may indicate that such speech was unintelligible. This type of tongue was also sp...
Christ, you see, built his Church not on a man but on Peter’s confession. What is Peter’s confession? ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ There’s the rock for you, there’s the foundation, there’s where the Church has been built, which the gates of the ...
I will argue that the denomination stillunderstands these prophecies to be literal, but an adaptation on how they should beinterpreted by the adherent within the church. The third chapter will examine thedoctrine of 鈥昮aith healing鈥 within the...
Those who know God know His character. But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.For in these I delight,” says the Lord. ...