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11 results for “John 5”
Clear searchA response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…safety, and Jewish people are abandoned to an unparalleled holocaust. He then appeals to John 5, Daniel, Matthew 24, Romans 8 and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 to reject the system. Some of his criticism is directed particularly towards the language of Tim LaHaye and pop…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
He Who Has Believed Has Eaten Does John 6 Teach the Literal Eating of Christ’s Body? “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life.” —John 6:47–48 An evangelical watch…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…cond Thessalonians 2 appears to place Antichrist before our gathering. First Corinthians 15 places the resurrection at the "last trump". Revelation 20 calls a post-Tribulation event "the first resurrection". John 6 promises to raise believers "at the last day". None is trivial. N…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…teaches from the language Christians gradually developed to defend it. Primary passages: John 1:1–3; John 5:17–23; John 8:54–59; John 17:5; Colossians 1:15–17; Hebrews 1:1–12; Isaiah 44:6, 24 --- In the previous study, we considered Ambrose’s wonderfully direct answer to those w…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…ional evidence. What recent resuscitation research found The 2023 AWARE II study examined 567 in-hospital cardiac arrests across 25 sites. Fifty-three patients survived and twenty-eight completed interviews. Eleven of those twenty-eight reported memories or perceptions suggestive…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…in which Allah has no mercy. The Qur'an calls people not to despair of Allah's mercy (39:53), and a hadith in Sahih Muslim says that no one enters Paradise by deeds alone but by Allah's mercy. Nevertheless, the scales remain a central image. Deeds are recorded and weighed; repen…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…merely say that God became loving when creatures appeared. It declares: "God is love" (1 John 4:8). That statement raises a serious question. If God is eternally one solitary Person, was divine love eternally active, or did it exist only as a capacity awaiting creation? Did rela…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…hristian confession of His deity is treated as a corruption of true monotheism (Surahs 3:45-49; 4:171; 5:72-75; 19:30-36). That is the strongest recognisable form of the Islamic claim. It does not deny that Jesus is remarkable. It denies that anything He says or does removes Him…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ogue, went up to Jerusalem for the feasts, celebrated Passover, and taught in the temple. John's Gospel places Him at the feast of tabernacles and the feast of dedication, now commonly called Hanukkah (John 7:2-14; 10:22-23). When asked for the first commandment, Jesus began with…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…esus was begotten when He rose from the dead, did He only then become the Son of God? Yet John called Him God’s “only begotten Son” before the cross and presented Him as the eternal Word who was already with God in the beginning. I knew those truths could not contradict one anoth…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…y thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17:5). And: “For thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24). Before creation there was not merely a solitary deity possessing an unused capacity for relationship.…
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