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New creation and the kingdom of God
reddneo:
Re: New creation and the kingdom of God:
Peace be unto you. We believe the heaven and the earth and the host thereof were created from everlasting, as it is written in Proverbs 8:24-26. For Christ was a priest forever after the order of...
Contradictions in the Gospels: Problems or Opportunities?
j david smithson:
Re: Contradictions in the Gospels: Problems or Opportunities?:
I do not understand my anyone is concerned about Bart Ehrman’s opinion concerning anything as regards Christian apolegetics. He, of course, is a non-believer by his own ...
Jacob:
Re: Contradictions in the Gospels: Problems or Opportunities?:
“So I don’t think there are two disconnected ways of understanding the NT - that of the academics, who have access to a ‘truer’ understanding of the texts, which...
Jacob:
Re: Contradictions in the Gospels: Problems or Opportunities?:
Yeah, I mean “forged” as in built or constructed an interpretation of some set of events—I don’t mean “forged” as in a forged dollar bill.
Thanks for...
peter wilkinson:
Re: Contradictions in the Gospels: Problems or Opportunities?:
Jacob - I guess you meant in the final line of your penultimate paragraph that ‘forged’ was as created as in a blacksmith’s forge, rather than a ‘forgery’, as in...
A non-believer's lament...
Tim:
Re: A non-believer's lament...:
CHRIS:
Thanks alot for sharing your reflections…, it seems you have experienced, and continue to experience, quite a colorful journey.
I think I may have seen the Borg presentation on...
ponderer:
Re: A non-believer's lament...:
Check out Marcus Borg’s youtube video on religious pluralism. It was a great help to me and it could be of some help to you, too, perhaps.
Chris.
ponderer:
Re: A non-believer's lament...:
As far as I am concerned, “something more” is very sufficient in leading one toward deeper paths of spiritual experience with what I would call “the Real.” If there...
Tim:
Re: A non-believer's lament...:
Good question…
The entire jbas concept is, at root, an interpretation of joshua ben adam’s ‘kingdom’ of god teaching, focusing on the essence or spirit of jba...
Jacob:
Re: A non-believer's lament...:
Self-exclusion. “Here I stand, I can go no further.” I can go with that.
But who would this jbas sit in relation to? I’m guessing that jbas members can...
Tim:
Re: A non-believer's lament...:
Jacob, as I look back on it, “boundary-free” may have been too broad. Religious boundaries were the specific category I was aiming at. Bob may have been speaking more...
The Lost World of Genesis One - John H. Walton
john doyle:
Re: Sailhammer:
So the Promised Land is really in present-day Iraq? That really is a revolutionary theory.
fresno dave:
Re: Sailhammer:
Hey John, thanks for engaging.
Sailhammer actually equates Garden of Eden/Promised land.
See this and this
john doyle:
Re: Sailhammer:
I’d never heard of Sailhammer’s theory before — thanks, Fresno. Though Walton doesn’t address the position directly, he offers some relevant commentary.
Walton contends...
fresno dave:
Re: The Lost World of Genesis One - John H. Walton:
Thanks for this..As usual, your comments are helpful in considering books we may not be aware of.
You may also be aware of Sailhammer ( a well-respected evangelical scholar)’s...
john doyle:
Re: Some More General Thoughts:
“the spelling has been anglicised”
You mean “anglicized,” don’t you?
Sure, that sounds fine, but I’d like to see it formatted in book form —...
peter wilkinson:
Re: Some More General Thoughts:
John your contributions to the published volume of Sir Toby would be as presented on the OST website - except that the spelling has been anglicised. If you’re not happy with that, let me...
john doyle:
Re: Some More General Thoughts:
I expect that Walton and I were writing our books concurrently. Some of the rationales behind our conclusions are very similar (e.g., the meaning of bara’ and tohu, the importance of 24-hour...
peter wilkinson:
Re: Some More General Thoughts:
I enjoyed reading your comments, John. Nice that somebody has finally caught up with you at last, though a shame they got into print first.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by:...
john doyle:
Some More General Thoughts:
Walton’s interpretation of Genesis 1 is essentially covered in his Propositions 1 through 9; the remaining 9 propositions are more theological and even political than exegetical. It seems to...
john doyle:
Propositions 7-9: Temple:
Now we’re at the heart of Walton’s argument. If Genesis 1 isn’t about God making the material universe or giving form to it, and if Gen. 1 is about assigning functions to the stuff...
john doyle:
Propositions 3-6:
Proposition 3: “Create” Concerns Functions
Walton does a word study of bara’ which is translated as “create” Gen. 1. It’s long been recognized that God always...
Chiasm and inclusio
fresno dave:
Re: Chiasm and inclusio:
Peter: yes, I think you are onto all kinds of valid connections.
I also think many times there are chiastic elements that are not full-blown, and not intentional…at least ...
peter wilkinson:
Re: Chiasm and inclusio:
It has been suggested that chiasm is a common, maybe subconscious habit of speakers, where to reiterate what they have said, they repeat the points, but in reverse order.
Use of...
Guerrilla Worship - Liverpool Flash Mob
The world has moved on.:
Re: Guerrilla Worship - Liverpool Flash Mob :
Hey Andrew, I watched the video and read the caption and I have to say,
I am not sure if I agree that this is in fact worship. I can see that
they are
trying to make it obvious that they care for the...
Why YOU Should Plant a Church
The world has moved on.:
Re: Why YOU Should Plant a Church:
Bob, what a wonderful article, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I love when you wrote “all I can say is that I think that many church plants that seem to be
failures by the standard of “Did they...
Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth
john doyle:
Re: Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth:
I’ve pretty well finished editing this book now, which stands at 35
thousand words. In it, as can be seen in the videos, the Sage proposes
that Genesis 1 is a description of a 7-day interval...
A Generous Orthdoxy - Brian McLaren
john doyle:
Re: A Generous Orthdoxy - Brian McLaren:
I see that Andrew has written as series of posts about McLaren’s new book on his P.OST blog. Inasmuch as he formerly wrote McLaren-based posts and commented on others’ evaluations of...

A non-believer's lament...
The Lost World of Genesis One - John H. Walton
Chiasm and inclusio
Guerrilla Worship - Liverpool Flash Mob