While the four Gospels do claim to recount real historical events, each author has taken the core stories of Jesus and edited, arranged, and designed them in a careful way to emphasize unique facets of Jesus’ character. Subsequent blogs will focus on the different aspects of each Gospel, but...
What did Jesus say on the cross? What did Jesus emphasize in his early teachings? What are the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount? What does the Christ Pantocrator suggest? What is the theme of the Gospel of Mark? What tribe is Jesus from?
I suspect that the use of these and related phrases betray an improper appreciation of the varying magnitudes of sin, but this lack of appreciation is sourced in a good desire and motivation to emphasize just how awful all sin is, and how opposed God is to sin of any kind, which often ...
There are surely self-evident rights with almost universal agreement, but they aren’t hidden in the Bible or any Book. Some Holy Books condemn or justify the killing of gays based on one’s interpretation being correct because their God inspired words written down. I would argue consensual sa...
who in turn was influenced by physician-hypnotists, such as Jean-Martin Charcot, in the final decades of the 19th century. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God.”. Will ...
He together with His Father, appeared to the boy Joseph Smith in the year 1820, and when Joseph left the grove that day, he knew more of the nature of God than all the learned ministers of the gospel of the ages.'" LDS Church News, June 20, 1998, p. 7...
As Mark recorded, “Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel’” (Mark 1:14-15; see “Messiah’s Message: ...
Of course, besides the Purpose-Driven and emergent models of church, there are dozens of other visions of the church floating around in the Christian atmosphere, ranging from home-based Pentecostal communities to more traditional churches that emphasize Reformed theology and the regular administration ...
There are disagreements between every political platform and the word of God. We should want to know what these disagreements are. We should ask ourselves, “In what ways does the party I support not align with God’s word?” We should ask the same thing of party leaders. How do the wo...
Where did the expression Bible thumper come from? Someone perceived as aggressively imposing their Christian beliefs upon others. The term derivesfrom preachers thumping their hands down on the Bible, or thumping the Bible itself, to emphasize a point during a sermon. ...