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Posted 1 year ago
via christianity
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Your Worldview Isn't Enough
What I’m not suggesting is that Christians lessen the intensity of their convictions as much as I am advocating for an appeal to our convictions that may need to be funneled through alternate means.
Take, for example, an appeal to the superiority of traditional marriage. If traditional marriage as understood by the Christian tradition is true and comports with reality, then it must be true apart from an appeal to Scripture. I arrived at this thinking after reading an article from the conservative quarterly of the University of Chicago, Counterpoint (which is available for free PDF download and a must read). In the most recent edition, the pseudonymous “Carl Roberts” makes an appeal for traditional marriage according to sociological data in his article titled “Rationally Based: Social Science’s Case for Traditional Marriage.” His conclusions are entirely palatable to a Christian understanding of traditional marriage, but Roberts arrived at his conclusion apart from appeals to Scripture.
In a culture that laughs at the notion of biblical authority, the Bible’s authority is going to have to be proven apart from the traditional recitations of Scripture. The Bible will still be true, but that does not mean that evidence which comports with Scripture is any less truer. Scripture’s truthfulness does not need to be proven outside itself, but our attempts at arriving at culturally satisfying and preserving explanations do.
Source: christianity
Posted 1 year ago
via nickbogardus
10 Things You Can Do With The Gospel
It’s great to be reminded of how much is packed into two verses you might otherwise glaze over. How often do we do any of these?
“Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.”—1 Corinthians 15:1-2
- preach it
- hear it preached
- deliver it
- receive it
- believe it
- be saved by it
- remember it
- remind others of it
- stand in it
- hold fast to it
Thanks to Justin Taylor for posting this.
There’s always so much depth to God’s word - We (I) have a hard time slowing down enough to really savor and relish the implications of what is being communicated.
Source: nickbogardus
Posted 1 year ago
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves; we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
Posted 1 year ago
via nathanroberton
Each one should use whatever gifts he has received to serve others faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.
such depth in small phrases.
Source: nathanroberton
Posted 1 year ago
via graphiceverywhere
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Posted 2 years ago
via subcreation
Irrefutable evidence of time travel
“A period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for your people and your holy city to put down rebellion, to bring an end to sin, to atone for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy One. Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, despite the perilous times.”“After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the City and the Temple.” Daniel 9:24-26 (NLT)
In Nehemiah 2:1-8 the command was given to rebuild Jerusalem in the 20th year of the reign of Artaxerxes (446 B.C.). Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven (7 x 7) + (62 x 7) is 483. A biblical year is 360 days, so with the adjustment the prophecy is very specifically set to occur in 31 AD.
Jesus arrived in Jerusalem at that time and was expected by the people of that time to overthrow the Romans and set up an earthly kingdom, but was instead killed. Even his own disciples expected this and were disappointed by the crucifixion - he appeared to have accomplished nothing. Jesus also prophesied the destruction of the city and the temple that later occurred in 70 AD (Matthew 24:1-2, Mark 13:1-2, Luke 21:20), which is also included in the Daniel prophecy.
Facinating stuff, since Daniel lived about 600 years before the event and 100 years before the decree.
the bible is history, prophecy, poetry and more. knowing what genre you’re reading is crucial. i think people are afraid to look at the mysteries of the biblical prophecies as pre-history history. but, in fact, it is. (thanks for this, subcreation)
Source: subcreation
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