Naomi Billingsley, The Visionary Art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination: Christology related to his contemporary culture. In particular she is good on Blake's vehement rejection of the substitution theory of the atonement – a rejection common enough today, but...
issue of atonement in Christianity; Reference to how the New Testament addresses the death of Christ; How Christ's incarnation and resurrection is symbolic of a new beginning for humanity; Efforts of spiritual counselors to offer advice on the role of suffering as part of salvation in the ...
‘House of David’ Is Faith Based—and Fantastical Peter T. Chattaway The new series on Amazon Prime tells the story of Saul, a shepherd, and lots of giants. News When Down Under Churches Listen to Refugees, Part Two Amy Lewis Some Christians strive to make Australia “a mo...
Before coming to my reasons for accepting the Virgin Birth let me point out briefly what the alternative is to my position. No truly honest mind could possibly accept this alternative and continue to plead for Christianity... The alternative involved in the rejection of the Virgin Birth discount...
CHRISTIANITYTHEOLOGYFew, if any, present-day undergraduate degree courses in Theology include in their syllabus a study of the Epistle to the Hebrews or other New Testament writings other than the Gospels and the Pauline epistles. The result is in effect that we create a canon within a canon....
As the Word of God becomes less and less important, the rise in mystical experiences escalates, and these experiences are presented to convince the unsuspecting that Christianity is about feeling, touching, smelling, and seeing God. The postmodern mindset is the perfect environment for...
Can you give me a reason why the Bible is the Word of God? Because every religion in the world will say that their book is the word of God. Why do you believe exclusively that this book, the Bible, is the Word of God? The apostle Peter wrote to us a very important a...
Thus, the Crucifixion has been understood by the Latins as Christ suffering punishment for the human race (“vicarious atonement”), when, in truth, Christ suffered and died on the Cross to conquer the devil and destroy his power, death. In any case, Orthodoxy has always put great stress...
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. (Lev 17:11) As we have seen above, the wages of sin is death. Because we have sinned, we deserve to di...
We Christians sometimes adopt a martyr mentality, where we think our troubles are so much worse than the troubles that non-Christians face. But if you spend any amount of time in the lives of non-Christians, you will soon come to realize that this is not true. ...