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Clear searchTwo accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…it against failure. The Bible also teaches a perfectly just judgement according to works. Christianity does not replace moral seriousness with divine indifference. Yet at the centre of the gospel stands an answer that no scale can supply: the Judge has provided a substitute, and…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world To many Jewish people, Christianity appears thoroughly foreign. Its historic centres became Rome, Constantinople, Canterbury, Geneva, and countless cities far from Jerusalem. Its Scriptures have been used to justi…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…k word parthenos for Isaiah 7:14. The Jewish Greek translation of Isaiah, produced before Christianity, already rendered almah with parthenos, the ordinary Greek term for a virgin or maiden. This point is sometimes overstated by saying that seventy or seventy-two Jewish scholars…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…rn category. The apostolic starting point was Jewish The earliest Church did not think of Christianity as a Gentile religion which had displaced Israel. Jesus and the apostles were Jewish. The first believers worshipped in Jerusalem, appealed to Israel's prophets, and proclaimed…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…ristians believed the Father, Son, and Spirit were three separate divine beings. Historic Christianity denies precisely that. The doctrine of the Trinity is an attempt to hold together everything Scripture reveals: there is one God; the Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spi…
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