Preterism and Christian Living
Listen to me read the article Sin Defined Dr. Cornelius Plantinga defines sin as a “culpable disturbance of shalom.” This definition intrigued me because it seems to sum up my understanding of sin. Typically, I define sin using several passages: But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because... Read more
Listen to me read the article The Church is Not the Kingdom In the last four days, we have looked at every passage about the timing of the coming of the kingdom. Before we sum up the recent articles, add some additional thoughts, and talk about some implications. We need... Read more
Listen to me read the article I was debating on whether or not to split up this section into two, but there really isn’t much in James and Peter, so we will just do them first. In this series, we have been looking at the coming of the kingdom passages... Read more
Listen to me read the article We’ve already covered Matthew and Luke, and our conclusions were the same in both works. Let’s see what Mark and Paul contribute to the discussion. Mark uses the word “kingdom” 20 times; Paul has 17 times including Hebrews. Here are the uses: lemma:βασιλεία in... Read more
Listen to Me Read the Article Yesterday, we tried to find out when the kingdom would come by just looking at Luke’s two books. Today, we’ll do Matthew. The word kingdom is used 55 times in Matthew, so he uses it roughly the same amount of times as Luke does... Read more
Listen to me read the article. When would the kingdom of God come according to Luke? Luke was an author of two books in the New Testament: Luke and Acts. The reason why we attribute both books to Luke is tradition. There is nothing within the books that suggests they... Read more
Listen to Me Read this Article (Plus Some Extra Bits) Don’t worry. This isn’t a post about coronavirus. Although, the title does seem fitting. The title is actually a paraphrase of a passage from John 20 that gives Bible students a lot of trouble: And when He had said this,... Read more
2020 has undoubtedly been a rough year, but thanks be to God and to you for helping make it a great one. A lot of bad things have happened this year: I, along with thousands of others, have had to quit/ lose jobs because of coronavirus, hundreds of thousands of... Read more
Revelation 21 clearly says that there will be no tears in the New Jerusalem, so the pressing question on everybody’s mind is “if the book of Revelation has been fulfilled, why did the Rolling Stones write ‘Start Me Up?’” To answer this, we need to go back to the Old... Read more
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Peter 2:1 The false teachers that would rise up among them would bring... Read more