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4 days ago · Jesus’s point is clear and extraordinary. Isaiah wrote about him. The Spirit rests on him, as Luke’s account of Jesus’s conception, baptism, and temptation have made clear ( Luke 1:35; 3:22; 4:1, 14 ). He is anointed to proclaim good news and liberty to captives and outcasts. Christ is similarly emphatic when he cites Scripture shortly ...
4 days ago · What began with “normative” absolutism, that form of religious believing and concept that holds rigidly to a set of assumptions, presuppositions and ideas as absolute truth, then may evolve or ...
5 days ago · Yet one is hard-pressed to find a textbook that identifies the Bible as a meaningful ideological influence on the American Revolution. This means that the most dominant force shaping Revolutionary Americans’ political convictions has become invisible to Revolutionary historians and students. “Stony Ground,” Edwin Austin Abbey, c. 1884.
5 days ago · These are some of the puzzles of the Bible that even the most seasoned religious scholars find challenging. Let’s take a closer look at the mysteries, cryptic prophecies, and inexplicable...
5 days ago · Index of Biblical Quotations in Early Christian Literature. BiblIndex is an index of biblical references found in early Christian literature, both Western and Eastern texts, so far covering the first three centuries, along with part of the following centuries.
5 days ago · God has a definite plan for us, but it will not be effective or successful unless we do it His way. Being a living sacrifice is the opportunity to have abundant life, as spiritual fulfillment is received through what we have invested in our obedience to God.
4 days ago · As such, the journal addresses a number of themes that reflect important aspects of our contemporary world and about which various Christian traditions have something to say, as well as how social, political or cultural issues shape the way that Christians interpret their own tradition.
