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Clear searchNot escape from the body, but its redemption
The Hope of the Resurrection Not escape from the body, but its redemption Many people imagine the Christian hope as an endless disembodied existence: the soul released from the body, leaving the physical wo…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
Was Christ Begotten at the Resurrection? Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son “This day have I begotten thee” appears to be applied to Christ’s resurrection. Did Jesus become…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
Is the Beatific Vision the Whole Christian Hope? Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation The beatific vision is the Christian teaching that the redeemed will see God and find their perfect happiness in Him. It draws upon magnificent…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…. The Word, he said, came down into bodies, clothed Himself in flesh, and then, after the body’s dissolution, was restored to deity. (See Note 2.) At first glance, this can sound surprisingly Christian. Nearly every landmark is present. There is the Word. There is creation. There…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…postolic text. It plainly does. The rapture is the living believer's participation in the resurrection The most important clarification is that the rapture is not a rival to the resurrection. It is the experience of believers who are still alive when the resurrection occurs. Paul…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…sia or a perceived threat of death. Common features include peace, a sense of leaving the body, passage through darkness or a tunnel, brilliant light, encounters with beings or deceased relatives, a panoramic review of life, and a boundary beyond which the person believes he cann…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
Did Jesus Have a Human Soul? Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body Why this is useful to know: Christians rightly confess that Jesus is God manifest in the flesh. Yet if “flesh” is imagined as a human body animated directly by the divine Word, Jesus ca…
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 watches a confident Roman Catholic presentation o…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
Is the Pretribulation Rapture Without Biblical Basis? A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation In an article published by the Christian Research Institute, Hank Hanegraaff argues that the pretribulation rapture has no biblical bas…
Read article →Michael J. Vlach · Biblical theology · 2023
I recommend The New Creation Model because it gave me a clear, sustained account of the resurrection body and the renewed creation as parts of one coherent purpose. Vlach is especially helpful in resisting the idea that Christian hope means escape from the physical world. He tr…
View recommendation →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…longs to the earliest decades of the Christian movement. It names Christ's death, burial, resurrection and appearances as matters of first importance. Paul was not isolated from the Jerusalem witnesses. He records spending fifteen days with Peter and meeting James, "the Lord's br…
Read article →What Christ’s promise establishes—and what claims about infallible teaching still need to prove
…tanding Jesus’ promise as an assurance that death cannot finally overcome His Church. The resurrection connection becomes especially significant when we read on. In verse 21, Jesus begins explaining that He must suffer, be killed, and rise again on the third day. The builder of t…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…nearly everyone else has missed. He speaks often of leaving this world, seldom of bodily resurrection, and hardly at all of the local church. Baptism and the Lord's Supper seem peripheral. Ordinary Christian service appears dull beside the latest prophetic timetable. Other belie…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…upon an ordinary man. All the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily in Christ. The human body of Jesus did not contain or exhaust His infinite divine nature, as though deity could be enclosed by skin. Nor did the Son cease to be what He eternally was. He assumed a complete human…
Read article →How the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
…nd into the deep to raise Him from the dead. God has already acted in the incarnation and resurrection. The saving word is near: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…after rejecting Messiah (Matthew 23:37-39); the mystery of Jew and Gentile united in one body is disclosed (Ephesians 3:3-6); and Israel experiences partial hardening "until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in" (Romans 11:25). This present period is not evidence that God has…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…ght God unprepared. The real distinction concerns revelation and identity. In the present body, believing Jews and Gentiles are reconciled to God and to one another in one new man (Ephesians 2:11–18). They possess equal standing in Christ. That unity does not require every covena…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…s receive the blessing of Abraham, the promised Spirit, justification by faith, adoption, resurrection hope, and an inheritance in the new creation (Galatians 3:6-29; Ephesians 1:3-14). Jewish and Gentile believers form one body with equal access to the Father. The Church also en…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…is operating within Israel's prophetic programme rather than explaining the newly formed body of Christ in Pauline terms. Daniel's abomination is especially important. Jesus says that when it appears, "then shall be great tribulation" (Matthew 24:15, 21). Daniel 9 places the dec…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…h rejected its King is addressed as the Jerusalem which will one day acknowledge Him. The resurrection did not erase the kingdom hope It is sometimes argued that the apostles expected a restored kingdom only because they had not yet understood Christ's spiritual mission. That exp…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…ssiah would suffer before reigning, or believing Jews and Gentiles would be united in one body. Later revelation unveils riches which earlier generations could not fully trace. Expansion, however, must remain faithful to what is expanded. If a promise to Israel and Judah reaches…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…ist as the fulfilment of the Passover and contains powerful proclamation of His death and resurrection. It also addresses Israel collectively as the killer of the Lord. "I," says Israel, "killed the Lord." —Melito of Sardis, On Pascha The Passion narratives plainly identify Jewis…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…class members of God's household. Every sinner is reconciled to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The question is whether this unity in salvation removes the distinctions which Scripture continues to make between Israel, the Gentiles, and the Church. That qu…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…covenants of promise. They receive the Spirit, become Abraham's seed by faith, enter one body with Jewish believers, and possess an incorruptible inheritance. These truths are not concessions made reluctantly. They are essential parts of the biblical case. But they do not answer…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…made of the seed of David according to the flesh” (Romans 1:3). He possessed a real human body and a rational human soul. He experienced hunger, thirst, weariness, sorrow and pain. He learned, obeyed, prayed and was tempted. “In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…. It is truth once hidden and now revealed by God. The Old Testament plainly foretold the resurrection, the Day of the Lord, the Messiah's kingdom, and His coming in glory. Paul's revealed mystery includes something more specific: a generation of believers will not die but will b…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…their insistence that the God of the gospel is the Creator of heaven and earth, that the body is not evil, that Jesus Christ truly suffered in the flesh, and that He rose bodily from the grave. I value ordered worship, accountable leadership, Christian discipline and fellowship…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…eatures appear repeatedly in accounts of spiritual ecstasy: a diminished awareness of the body, the weakening of the distinction between self and world, extraordinary light, overwhelming love, timelessness, visions, voices, and a compelling sense of hidden knowledge. These experi…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…tion lies beyond every human programme: the return of Jesus Christ, the redemption of the body, the revelation of the sons of God, and the reign of the last Adam over the earth. That reign will be the earth's great Sabbath. The creature and the Creator Romans 1 provides the neces…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…ice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.” — Isaiah 32:9 The women addressed embody a complacency shared by the wider society. They assume that the vintage, harvest and pleasant fields will continue to sustain their comfortable lives. Isaiah announces that their securi…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…wish The Twelve were Jewish men chosen to correspond to Israel's twelve tribes. After the resurrection, they remained in Jerusalem awaiting the Spirit. At Pentecost, Peter addressed "Ye men of Judaea" and "all the house of Israel", proclaiming that God had made the crucified and…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ith must be required to account not merely for the evidence it prefers, but for the whole body of evidence—including the facts which create difficulty for its own claims. This is the closing address. And the final question is not merely whether Islam can answer an isolated Christ…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…e same righteousness and Spirit. Within the Church, Jewish and Gentile believers form one body. Neither possesses a superior access to God. The dividing wall has been broken down, and both approach the Father by one Spirit (Ephesians 2:13-18). Christ stands at the centre of every…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…ecause it neither sees nor knows Him. The timing also belongs to the narrative. After His resurrection, Jesus tells the apostles to remain in Jerusalem until they receive "the promise of the Father" and power from the Holy Ghost (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4–8). At Pentecost, the Spirit…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…to Israel's twelve tribes. Through their witness, Gentiles would be brought into the one body of Christ and taught to bear the fruit God required. This is a real transfer. The Church does not merely observe the kingdom from a distance. Believers presently possess its spiritual b…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…story, fulfils the law and the prophets, and gathers believing Jews and Gentiles into one body. The question is whether those truths entail the permanent cancellation of national promises. What supersessionism gets right A fair examination begins with genuine agreement. Jesus Chr…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…gathering The most conspicuous fact about the passage is what it never says. There is no resurrection of the dead in Christ. There is no transformation of living believers. There is no trumpet, no catching up, no meeting in the air and no gathering together unto Christ. Paul des…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…eople of the Tribulation within Israel's prophetic setting, rather than the Church as the Body of Christ. The group may include other redeemed people gathered at Christ's return, but the discourse does not identify this event as the resurrection and transformation Paul reveals fo…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…kingdom of heaven is at hand." —Matthew 10:5-7 This restriction was temporary. After His resurrection, Jesus commanded His witnesses to make disciples among all nations (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8). Yet the earlier mission explains the sign of the Twelve. They were sent through…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…nal and prophetic. Christ has formed believing Jews and Gentiles into one Spirit-baptised body. Daniel's final week is the unfinished judicial and restorative programme concerning Daniel's people, Jerusalem, the nations, and the coming kingdom. The Church is promised deliverance…
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