It doesn’t necessarily matter when the 70 weeks began as long as we can connect the right events together, and since the theme of jubilee (freedom) is being focused on we can assume the events have to do with
In these articles, we consider many questions that relate to the book that “was sent down before.” Should it be forbidden for Muslims? Hasn’t it been corrupted by the Jews and Christians? If not, what proof is there that it has been well preserved? Besides, if the earlier revelations...
“As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” (Gal. 3:27) He baptized into His death that “He might present the Church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.” (Eph. 5:27) We ar...
1. Some carry the sense thus: "To know the love of Christ, which passeth, or surpasseth, the knowledge of all other things." There is an excellency, an usefulness in the knowledge of Christ's love, which is not to be found in the knowledge of any thing else. A man may know...
“the Christ Event,” the fundamental act of God in and through the flesh to redeem not only the individual but the whole of the cosmos, the entire created order. The third and fourth verses attest to this by invoking our ties to the religious and human community through all of time –...
“Advocate” would come to them as the Spirit of truth. Now, He tells them that this Spirit is also going to empower them to speak boldly of Him to all who would listen. As Jews, the apostles would have known of the work of the Spirit in the Old Testament, who fell upon the ...
The force of Acts 26:5-6 comes out far more clearly if we keep ‘in hope’ there too, and understand St Paul to say ‘All the Jews know me; from a boy I have been a strict Pharisee; and today I am living in hope of the promise to our fathers as I stand here on my trial—...
6And this is God’s plan: Both Gentiles and Jews who believe the Good News share equally in the riches inherited by God’s children. Both are part of the same body, and both enjoy the promise of blessings because they belong to Christ Jesus.7By God’s grace and mighty power, I have...
our commitment to this iterative message between sister Patricia and I nevertheless requires more of us. It is becoming easy for me to see how some Orthodox Jews believe it is necessary to devote all their time and energy to studying and interpreting the scriptures. Without writing a whole trea...
Is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ behind the wars, massacres and genocide of the Jews in the Old Testament? Certainly not! God says “love your enemies;” he does not say annihilate them. Jesus’ Father is merciful; and “he does not change like shifting shadows.”(James 1:17)....