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9 results for “Sola Scriptura”
Clear searchAn unrequited love for the historic Church
…se are serious disorders. They deserve rebuke. But they are not necessary consequences of sola Scriptura, believer’s baptism, a memorial understanding of the Lord’s Supper or premillennialism. Nor may every conscience-bound refusal of ecclesiastical claims be diagnosed as pridefu…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…he revelation of His glory; verses 9–11 announce His coming as ruler and shepherd. The consolation is God’s own presence. Then Isaiah 40:12–26 enlarges the horizon. Who measured the waters? Who instructed God? What nation could weigh against Him? What image could represent Him? T…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…t fully and truly. The terminology was not placed above Scripture. It was used to prevent scriptural words from being emptied of their meaning. Arius could say “Son,” “begotten,” “before the ages” and even “God,” while defining each expression in a way that left Christ a creature…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…s expose recognisable patterns. Revivalism can reduce the church to the setting in which isolated individuals make decisions. Conversion can become a possession separable from baptism, discipleship, discipline, and communion. The congregation becomes a provider selected by consum…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…ammad's circumstances. He was not formed in the recognised Jewish or Christian schools of scriptural learning, yet over approximately twenty-three years he recited a work possessing a distinctive Arabic voice, sustained theological purpose and extraordinary power over its hearers…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…me passages establish more than others. Several are capable of a weaker explanation when isolated. The real test is cumulative: which identity explains the whole Gospel portrait without requiring its natural features to be reduced one after another? Mark begins with the coming of…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…r. What Daniel actually says Daniel has been praying about Israel’s sin and Jerusalem’s desolation. He understands from Jeremiah that the Babylonian desolation would last seventy years, confesses the sins of his people and pleads for mercy upon God’s sanctuary and holy city. Gabr…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…ting in God’s temple and claiming divine status. Jesus connects Daniel’s abomination of desolation with the holy place and flight from Judaea. The final confrontation has a concrete setting in Israel, with a physical sanctuary. 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Matthew 24:15–16. Daniel’s seve…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…arrows to a particular land and crisis: "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place... Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains." —Matthew 24:15-16 The holy place, Judea, the mountains, and t…
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