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Clear searchCreation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
The Earth's Great Sabbath Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ The Christian hope for creation rests neither in human effort nor in escape from the material world. The creation groans for the r…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…ity does not disappear through unemployment, illness, disability or retirement. Our worth rests in bearing God's image, not in having a job title. Work is a gift and responsibility, but it is a cruel master when it becomes the source of our identity. Skill is a gift, not merely a…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…h, ignorance produces anguish and terror; revelation of the Father brings recognition and rest. This is not merely learning correct doctrine. It is discovery of one's forgotten origin and identity. Second, the highest divine reality was separated by a profound rupture from the ma…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…us' likeness. In others, the likeness falls upon a betrayer or upon someone who came to arrest Him. The variety matters. The commentators agree upon rescue and substitution more readily than they agree upon what actually happened. Minority interpretations also exist. Some Muslims…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…Daniel stands in the holy place. Those in Judea must flee to the mountains. Flight on the sabbath day creates a specific difficulty. False messianic claimants exploit Israel's expectation. The Son of man appears in the Danielic cloud-coming scene. The elect are gathered as the ki…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…is exactly right. Who is this? He is Lord of what God instituted Jesus' disputes over the Sabbath are sometimes reduced to a disagreement about legal interpretation. He certainly exposes traditions which turned the Sabbath against human need. But His conclusion reaches beyond the…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…nologically prior similarities still require an explanation. Was the Qur’an independently restoring genuine events which happened to survive in non-canonical legends? Or was it receiving and reshaping the religious stories already circulating in its world? That is the investigati…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…t. He did not merely repeat the interpretations around Him. He claimed authority over the sabbath, forgave sins, identified Himself with Daniel's Son of man, accepted messianic titles, and placed allegiance to Himself at the centre of faithfulness to Israel's God. His Jewish sett…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ts that confession as an assault upon divine unity. Christianity says that reconciliation rests upon Christ’s finished sacrifice. Islam calls people to submission, repentance, good works and hope in divine mercy without that atoning ground. These are not different accents within…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…s spent much of his life defending the Nicene settlement; Constantine had an imperial interest in presenting unity as his achievement. Their testimony must therefore be read critically. Yet we possess the creed, the twenty canons, letters written during or immediately after the c…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…ting. Jesus then adds: "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day." —Matthew 24:20 The Sabbath reference does not prove that every person addressed is Jewish. It does show that the crisis is imagined within a society where Sabbath conditions ma…
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