Some Prophets
‘Prophecy is of the nature of poetry, and depicts events, not in the prosaic style of the historian, but in the glowing imagery of the poet.’ — J. Stuart Russell, The Parousia, pg. 81.
Last time we took a brief look at poetic language and how it’s used. We saw how celestial images can [...]
Archive for December, 2007
New Testament Eschatology — Old Testament Background Continued
Posted in Christianity, Eschatology, Faith & Spirituality on 30 December 2007 | 3 Comments »
Q?
Posted in Christianity, Faith & Life, Faith & Spirituality on 27 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
For those of us that aren’t aware, some scholars believe that Matthew and Luke copied a lot of their material from the gospel of Mark (supposedly the oldest Gospel). But there is a lot in Matthew and Luke that doesn’t appear in Mark. So, some scholars came up with a hypothetical document titled ‘quelle’ (a [...]
New Testament Eschatology — Old Testament Background
Posted in Christianity, Eschatology, Faith & Spirituality on 26 December 2007 | 7 Comments »
Often times, the reason people insist that the New Testaments writers were wrong about the ‘end of the world’ — i.e., the writers believed it was going to take place very soon for them — is because of an almost ‘wooden’ literalism that is used when reading those passages. I find this a little [...]
New Testament Eschatology – Introduction
Posted in Christianity, Eschatology, Faith & Spirituality on 24 December 2007 | 5 Comments »
From time to time, I hear a lot about the early church’s understanding of the ‘end of the world’ or their belief of the ‘Second Coming of Jesus’ as taking place within their generation. And it’s usually not in a very good light. ‘They were obviously mistaken’ is often the remark I hear [...]
