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Well yes, but if you want to be Originalist about it folks should go back to the actual ancient theme. The Actual "Good News" motif is the announcement of the transfer of a Kingdom. In ancient terms it would be like the town criers announcing to a new area that was conquered by Rome or some...

This is one of those groups I have never dealt with directly except for a few random folks on the internet. But you hear a lot about them if you ever have dealing with Pentecostals and Charismatics. I consider them a Case Study in Why Nude Scripture does not work. As far as heresy...

Under Nero and the insane emperors yes, but even then some places like Egypt faired pretty well until 280 AD under Diocletian. By having Satan's boot on your throat I'm talking about stuff like this and worse. You know it is bad when you are forced to live in a garbage dump and make that your...

The Gospel literally is described in two Pauline epistle verses as "the Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ". I was reminded of this in recent times of dealing with Seventh Day Adventists that have an extremely expansive Gospel that includes such things as the reform of one's diet for...

I actually believe in the basic notion of the Crusades but was against how they are carried out. Christianity has definitely got pacifistic sentiments coming from Jesus, but that does not fit the entire Bible, nor do you see negative evaluations against soldiers coming from Jesus relating to...

The Gospel is the story of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the explaining of its significance in terms of the Old Jewish Tanach and surrounding pagan religions and greater metaphysical and existential themes and issues.

I guess most of the time I'm on the other side of the issue, but I guess I can understand the sentiment based on seeing a certain amount of pat unsatisfying answers coming from "Apologetics". But on my end it seems to me that Skepticism and Iconoclasm has an unfair advantage in society...

Both. This reminds me of posting on a online friend's YouTube live stream recently. He is a Calvinist and was talking about "Human traditions" and I told his on the Bible that issue "Cuts Both Ways", that I "Considered Limited Atonement, a Human tradition", and not just on Church history...

I may only touch on half of these things. Off handed I believe the passage historically would be about Torah Keeping for Salvation and Sanctification and making that be the primary direction of one's spiritual energies compared to the subject matter taught by Jesus and the Apostles. This...

I have been dealing with this issue for more than a decade now. My original model that I think is better than most was that the Trinity doctrine was a harmonization of scriptural truth and conflict namely between the Old Testament Shema that describes God as "One" (Echad) vs. Trinitarian...

Ug I don't think I want to stomach him today. Not that I don't have sympathies for him and why he is the way he is dealing with Fundamentalist Christians, but my big problem with him is he as a person somehow ends up exaggerating all the alleged problems with the New Testament so much, that it...

I believe that God is Magnanimous in the long run. But I got to say, I have a big problem with people, especially Calvinists and people that are strong ultra Augustinians on issues of theodicy. Here is something that really bothers me, to the point of needing to actually write about it...

By and large Friendship Evangelism is better. Apologetics is better when it comes to the narrative/ propaganda front. And I there are even levels beyond that when it comes to more aggressive Apologetics that actually get into polemics when it comes to dealing with strong ideologies like...

(Groks response to my above Comment) I agree with your core point—it's primarily about the heart and attitude, not strictly the type of offering. The text in Genesis 4 supports this strongly, and the broader biblical picture of Israelite sacrifices reinforces it. Let's break it down with the...

I believe it is purely about the attitude of the heart. And I think you can prove it based on the kind of offering and sacrifices made by Israel that included all kinds of things from the fat of animals, grain offerings, first fruits, I think even wine. Besides this there are various...

Why the Traditional Resurrection Timeline Holds by Pavel Mosko One of the most common objections to the historic Christian understanding of the resurrection is this: Jesus said He would be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). A Friday afternoon crucifixion and...

I made this comment on a Protestant YouTube channel I frequent and thought it might be worth sharing here too. "The affect of awe of worship is not just a Christian thing. There was an atheist that likes to go to Christian church services for the artistic expression etc. and he could see a...

That's OK. I was probably more sold on Orthodoxy than you were in the late 90s and I think it took me maybe 15 years do to various life issues. There are various midway alternatives in Anglicanism / Episcopalianism that can strike a balance between Protestant sentiments and Ancient...

I used to encounter these kind of questions all the time when I was a regular on a "Postmodern Christian" message board known as "the ooze dot com", that has been defunct for a good number of years. I am a traditional Eastern Christian in Faith so I have a much higher regard for the testimony...