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Clear searchAugustine of Hippo · Spiritual autobiography and prayer · c. 397–400
…rsued him. The result is both deeply personal and intellectually rich: a study of sin and desire, but still more a testimony to the God in whom the restless heart finds its true home. This is a spiritual classic, not an authority equal to Scripture or a template for every convers…
View recommendation →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…At the end of the letter Paul returns to the controversy over circumcision. His opponents desire a good showing "in the flesh" and glory in the circumcision of others. Paul will glory only in the cross of Christ (Galatians 6:12-14). He then states the governing rule: "For in Chri…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…in human history, of the love and humility belonging to His eternal character. The Angels Desired to Look Would the incarnation appear as absurd to angels as it does to human philosophy? We should answer carefully. Angels do not stand outside creation and they do not comprehend G…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…: The Son assumed not only the part of us that can bleed, but the human life that thinks, desires, grieves, chooses and obeys. Christ’s humanity was not a costume, a container or a body waiting for a divine occupant. Primary passages: Matthew 26:38–39; Luke 2:40, 52; Luke 22:42;…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…t and his ministry. His zeal for evangelism, his clarity about sin and judgement, and his desire to bring people to Christ have helped an enormous number of Christians. I am not suggesting that he consciously denies Christ’s complete humanity, and I am certainly not attempting to…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…my words, and believes in Him that sent me, has everlasting life’ … we ought therefore to desire Him in order that we may have life, and to devour Him with the ear, and to ruminate on Him with the understanding, and to digest Him by faith.”[3] Tertullian’s reasoning follows the s…
Read article →Faith, assurance, and the unseen reality of God
…Yet Hebrews 11 also keeps us from turning faith into confidence in whatever we happen to desire. Its witnesses respond to God. Their hope has an object beyond their own wishes. Faith does not make a thing true because we believe it strongly. The believer’s assurance rests on the…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…hirsts The Bible does not flatter us about the condition of the human heart. It speaks of desire, longing and dissatisfaction because we were made for God and have turned away from Him. David wrote: "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…scribing the direct knowledge of God as the fulfilment of the rational creature's deepest desire. Protestants may question parts of his philosophical account, but we should not lose the biblical centre he sought to defend: nothing created can replace God as our final good. The Ch…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…g it; He commanded watchfulness and prayer in relation to it. The Christian hope is not a desire to avoid faithfulness. Believers should be prepared to suffer, serve, lose possessions, and die rather than deny Christ. The pretribulation claim is not that the Church deserves comfo…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…st therefore be stated carefully rather than adjusted around whichever event produces the desired interval. Nevertheless, we need not explain the passage away. Let the strongest Muslim chronology stand. A successful geopolitical prediction is evidence to be weighed. But it does n…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…ssion and grace. Before Peter’s denial, Jesus told him: “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.” —Luke 22:31–32 Jesus knew Pete…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…cross were genuinely experienced in His humanity. Yet temptation never encountered sinful desire within Him. The prince of this world came and had nothing in Him (John 14:30). The Person tempted was the Son of God; the temptations reached Him through the human life He had truly a…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…ns another palm-tree miracle involving Mary and Jesus. During the flight into Egypt, Mary desires the fruit of a high palm. At Jesus’ command the tree bends down, and water is provided from its roots. The cluster is suggestive: Mary; Jesus’ infancy; a palm tree; miraculous fruit;…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…l judgment suddenly become decisive. The rule seems to change according to the conclusion desired. My answer to this has become simple: You may claim the historic structure; I claim the historic hope. Or, put more sharply: You cannot make antiquity authoritative at the table and…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…el; hungry for righteousness rather than luxury; pure in heart rather than intoxicated by desire; peacemakers rather than destroyers. The Lord's Prayer directs their hope towards earth without making earth their god: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…(Titus 1:1). Grace does not merely pardon; it teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world (Titus 2:11–14). This is why a settled claim to faith accompanied by a settled refusal of Christ's rule creates a bib…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…a human being. Christians do have a real hope beyond death before the resurrection. Paul desired to depart and be with Christ, which he said was "far better" (Philippians 1:23). To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). Death cannot separate…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…hrist. They are therefore a legitimate and necessary mission field, and Christians should desire their salvation rather than treating their present national restoration as though it removed their need of Messiah. Nor does their present unbelief cancel God's covenant faithfulness.…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…aft in the natural branches again. We should grieve over Jewish unbelief as Paul grieved, desire Jewish salvation as Paul desired it, and resist every form of anti-Jewish hatred as a denial of Christian love. The hope of Israel is not an abstraction. It concerns people who remain…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…sciples still asked about the restoration of the kingdom to Israel. Jesus corrected their desire to know the timing, not the identity of the kingdom's recipient (Acts 1:6-8). The worldwide mission had to proceed, but it did not make the earlier promise void. The sequence is coher…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…y compare this with Muhammad's claim to recite revelation rather than speak from personal desire. Surah 61:6 says that Jesus announced a messenger to come after Him "whose name is the Praised One" (Pickthall), commonly understood as Aḥmad, a name related to Muhammad. John 14–16 i…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…ove of the truth” Second Thessalonians 2 makes the relationship between understanding and desire especially searching: “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this caus…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…he rapture in one isolated verse. Its literary geography consistently places the reader's desired allegiance and ultimate safety with the Lamb in heaven, not among the earth-dwellers under judgement. That structure fits pretribulationism remarkably well. References for further re…
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