While there are many forms that over-realized eschatology can take, this post will be only about some the salient ones. One of the examples of this notion that does not correspond with what the NT teaches is the idea that in Christ’s first coming, the story of Israel comes to its proper climax and even, in some views, conclusion, and so from now on the church of Jew and Gentile united in Christ is Israel. This view in its most... Read more
“God wants us to be people, not puppets; real human beings who think things out and make actual decisions, not straws in the wind to be blown this way and that. You need to ‘figure out properly things that differ’, says Paul– and the word he uses for ‘figure out properly’ is our old friend dokimazein as in the dokimos root in Romans 5.4 and 12.2 Part of the problem in contemporary Christianity, I believe, is that talk about the freedom of... Read more
It was 1495, not long after Columbus sailed the ocean blue, that Leonardo Da Vinci now 50, yes that Leonardo of all the incredible inventions and the famous Mona Lisa, was asked to paint a wall in Milan in a convent church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and since it was the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza who asked and was doing the commissioning, even Leonardo could hardly say no. But what Da Vinci did was hardly typical. He decided... Read more
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