Showing posts with label Theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theology. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Over my dead body!

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Christ’s recapitulation of the human story does not simply invite us into the divine life. There is an objective reality about it; it has h...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

See evil for what it is…

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Evil is in no way part of God’s good purpose, and cannot be, since it does not have existence as a created good. Evil is neither rationally...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Evil

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there has never been a satisfactory account of the origin of evil, and there will be none on this side of the consummation of the kingdom of...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

So, what does it mean?

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Thus, “righteousness” does not mean moral perfection. It is not a distant, forbidding characteristic of God that humans are supposed to try ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

The way is open

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In a striking and original act of imagination, the author of Hebrews reinterprets the temple veil as the human flesh of Jesus. Christ has gon...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Grace drives the sequence from first to last

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It is surely no accident that Paul the Pharisee eschews all talk of repentance in his letters. He distances himself from any concept of repe...
Monday, July 07, 2025

Sin? Not what you think…

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To be in sin, biblically speaking, means something very much more consequential than wrongdoing; it means being catastrophically separated f...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

There isn't any split!

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God is a God of judgment and a God of grace. Both judgment and grace are in the New Testament. And both judgment and grace are in the Old Te...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Tozer for Tuesday

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Weed: Christ Is for Us, God Is against Us Some say that Christ the Son differs from the God the Father. That is one weed I want you to pull...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

In and through, not over and against!

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Closely related is a striking passage in II Corinthians that begins: “ All this is from God , who through Christ reconciled us to himself,”...
Friday, May 30, 2025

The Trinity did it!

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The important thing for our discussion here is Paul's announcement ( kerygma ) that God, in the person of his sinless Son, put himself v...
Friday, May 23, 2025

It's irreligious!

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The crucifixion marks out the essential distinction between Christianity and “religion.” Religion as defined in these pages is either an organ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

The world was changed!

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The cross, incomparably vindicated by the resurrection, is the novum , the new factor in human experience, the definitive and world-changing ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Too offensive!

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The central event of Christianity is too offensive and too much against the grain of religious thought as we know it ever to have emerged ou...
Friday, May 02, 2025

The skandalon of the cross

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He wants to emphasize the skandalon of the crucifixion. This was not a popular topic in Paul’s time, and it is not a popular topic today. Th...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The Trinity and salvation

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One of the currently popular substitutes for the name of the Trinity, “Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer,” cannot serve this function because God...
Monday, April 28, 2025

The role of the Trinity in the crucifixion

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God is the triune God. He is one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus of Nazareth was not a free-floating holy man. If h...
Friday, April 18, 2025

You can't glamorize it (Good Friday thought)

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The crucifixion of a man on a cross outside of the hills of Jerusalem must have been a repulsive thing. There just is no way to glamorize th...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Person(ality)-to-person(ality)

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Because I am a personality, and God is a personality, I believe that we can have personal interaction with God—the interaction between one p...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Jesus Loves Me, This I Know

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226 Jesus Loves Me, This I Know 1 Jesus loves me! this I know,    For the Bible tells me so;    Little ones to Him belong;    They are weak...