Joshua M. McNall“Atonement” is one of the few words in our theological lexicon that actually originates from English. It speaks to the “at-one-ment” (reconciliation) made possible between God and humans because of Jesus’s work. In the words of Scripture, “God wasreconcil...
To be fair the Bible does say something about those who do nothing: James 2:17 So you see, it isn’t enough just to have faith. Faith that doesn’t show itself by good deeds is no faith at all—it is dead and useless. 18 Now someone may argue, “Some people have faith; ot...
Ephesians 1:9speaks about themystery of God’s will: “having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself.” This mystery pertains to God’s overarching plan and purpose for humanity and creation, reconciling all creation to him...
And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’Berean Standard BibleWhen your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’King James BibleAnd when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not ...
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd he said,... By letter to him: what cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? so he called him, being not only his neighbour, but his ally, in friendship and covenant with him; and this he said of them not by way of complain...
‘sunlight’ of reconciling knowledge, we are going to be staggered by the beauty of this world. As William Blake famously prophesised in his appropriately titled poem,The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,‘When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are. For ...
Does belief plus falling down backwards and shaking constitute "saving faith"? Falling down and shaking is a consistent picture of demonization in the Bible. The demons also tremble and shake in their belief of the one God. James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well...
Today I have a bit more to say about what it means to regard someone “as a Gentile and a tax collector” (Matt 18:17). What Does It Mean to Consider Someone as a Gentile and a Tax Collector? Before we leave Jesus statement about treating an unrepentant sinner as “a Gentile and a...
without Christ in the world, Gentiles cut off, and Christ died in our stead bringing us, reconciling us into God. That now we are sons and daughters of God, and it does not yet appear just what we shall be in the final end, but we know we'll have a body like His own glorious ...
I hope, be sufficient to illuminate the basic problem created by the core-periphery schema. Against the backdrop of this manufactured and unnecessary contradiction, I offer a reading of “The Ontology of the Photographic Image” capable of reconciling its argument with the totality of Bazin’s wo...