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Clear searchHow Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…dentity. Each side supplies its own account of the world: the dangers which matter, the injustices which deserve attention, the experts who may be trusted, the words which may be used and the people who ought to be feared or condemned. Once the package has been accepted, every ne…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…le charge—“Isaiah said young woman, Matthew dishonestly changed it to virgin”—does not do justice to the evidence. Good interpretation must allow both horizons to speak. Isaiah addressed a genuine crisis in Judah. Matthew announced a genuine miracle in Mary. The first sign declar…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…swers do not prove the whole system. They clear away five common criticisms so the actual biblical questions can be heard. Criticism 1: “Dispensationalism was invented by Darby” John Nelson Darby played a major role in systematising and spreading nineteenth-century dispensational…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…9, and the people of God Michael Horton's essay, “No Holy Land: Does Israel Still Have a Biblical Claim on the Middle East?”, presents a concise Reformed case against dispensational land theology. Horton argues that Israel's possession of Canaan was conditional, that the promise…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…out. Does this establish a pretribulation rapture by itself? No. It supplies a meaningful biblical pattern, but patterns must support clear teaching rather than replace it. Abraham's question concerns God's justice Genesis 18 does not portray Abraham teaching God something He had…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…upervisor, customer or organisation. We work beneath the eye of God. That does not make injustice acceptable, but it prevents an unjust person from having the final power to determine the meaning of our faithfulness. Faithfulness without making work an idol Loyalty, diligence and…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…within the category of prophet. We have considered eternal love, the crucifixion, divine justice, forgiveness and assurance. We have tested the transmission of the Bible, the missing Islamic Injeel, the Qur’an’s miracle claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad, the covenant line th…
Read article →Dave Hunt · Biblical polemic · 2002
…acter of God, and especially of His love. Hunt repeatedly brings the argument back to the biblical text. Follow the references, open the passages, read their contexts, and the book becomes a Scripture study rather than merely one side of a theological dispute. This is an unapolog…
View recommendation →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…Trinity by defining love in a way which makes every alternative logically impossible. The biblical case is stronger than that. Jesus does not leave us to speculate about whether love might have existed before creation. He speaks of love which was actually given and received: "For…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…among them, and the land becomes fruitful and secure. Israel’s Covenant Husband The wider biblical witness identifies the LORD, not the land, as Israel’s covenant husband. Jeremiah describes the Sinai covenant in explicitly marital terms: “Which my covenant they brake, although I…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…ning to Messiah, outpouring of the Spirit, and righteous reign have not yet occurred. The biblical expectation is therefore not simply that Israel exists again as a nation. It is that the nation will be spiritually restored. God will bring Israel to repentance, remove ungodliness…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…repentant, pure, just, trusting and obedient are loved. Unbelief, treachery, arrogance, injustice and corruption stand beneath the declaration that Allah does not love. This is not a trivial observation. Repetition forms theology. The reader is taught to understand divine love th…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…iticus 26; Deuteronomy 28). God would not have been more faithful by ignoring idolatry, injustice, and unbelief. His holiness required judgement. Solomon praised God because not one word of the promised blessing had failed (1 Kings 8:56); later generations discovered that not one…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…an include governance, administration, discernment, vindication, and the establishment of justice. Israel's judges did more than decide lawsuits. God raised them to deliver and govern His people. Moses heard disputes and made God's statutes known, while appointed rulers dealt wit…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…som, the blood of the covenant, the sacrifice for sins and the event through which divine justice and mercy meet. It replaces the apostolic proclamation with rescue from the cross. But the historical evidence will not permit that replacement. Jesus was not saved from crucifixion.…
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