Not exact matches
«If the New
Testament books really were inspired by an omnipotent
God, why was He unable to prevent their being changed within decades
of being written, by people acting in His
name?»
«We
named Sophia after Woman Wisdom, the feminine personification
of God found in the Old
Testament, particularly in Proverbs.
«The second person
of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the
name man, the
name of the male...
God appoints all the priests in the Old
Testament to be men; the Son
of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers
of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»
New
Testament Scholars tell us that there are only three historical facts that we can be certain
of about Jesus: (a) Jesus was part
of the Kingdom
of God movement, the belief in the divine sovereignty
of Israel, and the desire for the divine expulsion
of the Romans, (b) when Jesus came to Jerusalem to advance this movement, he was crucified, a penalty reserved specifically for those who posed a political or financial threat to the Roman Peace, and (c) a sect
of the Kingdom
of God movement continued in Jesus»
name and memory, which was active in Jerusalem, and which lasted until 70 CE when the city was sacked and all the many different Zealot sects there were put down.
And by the same grace, sinful men and women could learn to call this Jesus the Son
of God, a step beyond what they knew
of sonship from the Old
Testament — when Israel had been
named Son
of God (Exod.
In the Old
Testament God said His
name was I Am in the New
Testament Jesus called Himself I Am, much to the annoyance
of the religious Jews.
All I can say here is that such a hypothesis regarding the New
Testament, which makes such nonsense
of its soteriology (a man who merely reveals
God can not save us in the way the text says he can and does) and which goes against the prima facie sense
of such texts as Philippians 2:6 - 9 and John 20:28, can not long succeed whatever luminaries put their
names to it.
To reject this idol may often involve falling back upon skepticism, but sometimes one seems fleetingly to be enabled to reject the idol in the
name of a Being who really is Another, who requires one to stop putting words into His mouth, who has the predictable disconcerting quality
of the
God of the New
Testament, who directs one's attention away from oneself, who is relaxed where the idol is grim and immensely awe - inspiring where the idol is puny.
If we engage in the «de-mythologizing»
of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old
Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than
God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his
Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.
VII, pp. 155) When in the New
Testament the old historic
name «Israel» is applied to this continuous community, it means now not any racial or national group, but simply «the People
of God»; that is to say, a community defined solely by its relation to the eternal King
of the Universe.
Old
Testament materials prepare the way for this understanding by
naming the
name of God in connection with historical events and by interpreting his reality, partly at least, in terms
of his involvement in the fortunes
of Israel.
Yes, well, though there is some truth in that perspective, the fact
of the matter is that most
of the New
Testament seems to lead us to believe that
God truly is in charge, not just in
name, but in practice as well.
-- Matthew 24:37 This is one
of the reasons why some conjecture that the UFO phenomena may be a contemporary manifestation
of a recurrence
of these same hybrids.16 Since we are having to try «to reconcile the character
of Jesus with some
of the events that happen in the
name of God in the Old
Testament» let's continue considering these events in light
of the prophecies
of Jesus and a couple
of New
Testament writers.
Just because Wars had been waged in the
name of religion doesn't make the point
of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old
testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would kn
testament quote, but a new
Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would kn
Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would
God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)
But that sort
of «truth» is all over in the Old
Testament as well as people went out in the
name of God to slaughter those who they considered to be His enemies.
To be sure, in the Old
Testament no
gods of Sheol are specifically
named, but Dr. Paton is probably correct in thinking that we have the faded reminiscence
of them in such personifications as «Death shall be their shepherd» (Psalm 49:14) or «He shall be brought to the king
of terrors.»
What is the Christian
God, the Christian
God has a partner
named Jesus the son
of God as mentioned in the Bible, but all
of you ignore the old
testament.
When it comes to the violence
of God in the Old
Testament, one
of the primary areas
of concern is not only with
God's apparent violent actions in Scripture, but what
God commands Israel to violently do in His
name.
The: sacred mountain, «the mountain
of God,» is called Horeb, a
name used less than twenty times in the Old
Testament, but it is called Sinai — quite apparently the same mountain — about forty times.
What the Old
Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty
of all
God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially
of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement
of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution
of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness
of feeling when His
name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness
of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice
of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness
of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness
of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say)
of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»
I think he understood — and I wish there was more in the New
Testament about this — that his attack was not just against a few immoral people but against a system that exploited others in the
name of God.
All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary
of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New
Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World
of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways
of Life by Lynn Cohick -
God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation
of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year
of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
You could describe his style vibe as «casual priest» — a perfect look for talking about First Reformed, his tense drama starring Ethan Hawke as an alcoholic minister
named Toller who's politicized by questions
of how an Old -
Testament God can combat global warming.