URGENT: Please pray AGAIN for Bob; as I write this, he is being life-flighted to Cleveland. Blood has apparently built up around his heart; I’m no doctor, but it sounds as though some surgery is in store for this Good Friday. Pray that God will be gracious to Bob again this day. — Barry Jones Read more
Mark Dever, a Baptist pastor in Washington, DC, is the author of the featured article in Christianity Today and it appropriately deals with the atonement. But, instead of being a positive description of what the death (and resurrection) is, Dever decided to defend penal substitution. And, instead of defending it by exegesis of specific passages, he decided to critique those who are (in his view) waffling on the center of atonement: penal substitution. |inline Read more
On the immigration issue, there is a bit a stalemate on this blog, though there has been good discussion, and I thank each of you for your comments. But, I’d like us to consider it all from a different direction: What about Paul and Onesimus? |inline Read more
I’ve taken a stand in my life at over-interpreting the greetings and endings of NT letters. Just because “grace” or “peace” or “mercy” show up doesn’t mean we need to flop a big fat concorance on our desk and chase down every possible nuance of a term. I learned this from Eugene Nida long ago: a word has no more meaning in a context than it needs to have. |inline Read more
Here is what Irenaeus says about The Gospel of Judas in his Against Heresies, 1.31.1: |inline Read more
CNN published yesterday its new ranking of jobs. And, lo and behold!, they rank college professors at #2. The secret is now out, so I’m glad I got my teaching post before everyone and their offspring realized that teaching is the second greatest thing there is. |inline Read more
Bart Ehrman, in his essay in the National Geographic presentation of the translation of The Gospel of Judas, once again raises his oft-argued point: by the time of Nicea (c. 325) there was a “winning” side and a “losing” side. The winners were the “orthodox.” The losers were the heretics. Prior to that time, Christianity was much more diverse. |inline Read more
There are rumors that the Pope Benedict XVI may declare a “universal indult” (permission) for local parishes to return to the 1962 Missal (Tridentine Mass) where the mass was said in Latin, the form prior to Vatican II. The political and theological implications for such a decision would be enormous. The rumor is that it could happen today: Thursday. |inline Read more
Never has there been a day when it is easier than today to believe in the Devil of Peter. Why? Because Peter connects the Devil with systemic violence. And never have we faced what Walter Wink calls the “powers,” and we need to name for what they are so we can resist them. |inline Read more
Scene 3 has all the sensational and new stuff about Judas, and I will briefly summarize what this Scene tells us. |inline Read more
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