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"What about those instances in which a demon manifests in a Christian? In most cases the demon entered before the believer's conversion to Christianity, and the evil spirit continued to control some part of the Christian's life because the specific occult sin was never renounced. The demon claims squatters rights."
-- Bob Larson
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Submitted by Virgil on Sunday, September 07 @ 05:24:53 PDT (92 reads)
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Preterism: A Revival in Eschatology?
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From Parson's Pen
The first time I heard it, I felt a gnawing apprehension deep inside what many call “the gut”. Instinctively, I knew nothing of lasting good could come out of it. Twenty-five years later, the Apostolic movement struggles with the backlash of the decade of abused eschatology. Though hundreds were reported to have been converted in these “end-time” revivals of the 1980s, eschatology preaching and teaching no longer incites the interest of the masses. Has the backlash from the 80s doomed the study of prophecy to only Bible geeks with nothing better to do?
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Filed by Duncan McKenzie on Friday, September 05 @ 12:06:23 PDT (186 reads)
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Exclusive: What is the Narrative of Revelation
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by Duncan McKenzie
In case anyone is interested, I may finally have volume I of my book out in early 2009. The thing is so long I decided to split it into two volumes. Volume I will be about 350 pages; volume II will be about 450 pages. It is the product of eight years of labor!
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Filed by John Evans on Thursday, September 04 @ 06:26:30 PDT (189 reads)
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Exclusive: Getting Daniel Past the Second Century BC: Introduction
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by John Evans
In the fifteen or so years during which I have been devoting a great deal of attention to the Book of Daniel, I have sought to make the case for believing that there really was a Daniel the prophet who lived in Babylon during the sixth century BC and prophesied about the Coming of the Messiah in the person of Jesus Christ. In doing so, I have argued that the sequence of four earthly kingdoms presented in Daniel 2 and 7 should be understood to be Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, and I have suggested that the great statue of Daniel 2 serves as a timeline whose five different sections correspond remarkably well with the recorded history of Judea and the adjacent lands during the period running from 605 BC, when the Kingdom of Judah was incorporated into the Babylonian Empire, to about AD 30, which is often given as the probable year for the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.
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Submitted by Virgil on Tuesday, September 02 @ 06:01:15 PDT (260 reads)
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News: New Study Shows Solar System is Unique
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Research conducted by a team of North American scientist shows our solar system is special, contrary to the accepted theory that it is an average planetary system. Using computer simulations to follow the development of planets, it was shown that very specific conditions are needed for a proto-stellar disk to evolve into a solar system-like planetary system. The simulations show that in most cases either no planets are created, or planets are formed and then migrate towards the disk center and acquire highly elliptical orbits.
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Submitted by Virgil on Friday, August 29 @ 12:01:15 PDT (129 reads)
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News: Dead Sea Scrolls to go digital on Internet
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Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet. Israel Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early Christians at the time of Jesus, said on Wednesday it would take more than two years to complete the project.
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Submitted by Virgil on Thursday, August 28 @ 06:41:06 PDT (225 reads)
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News: Pelosi gets unwanted lesson in Catholic theology
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Politics can be treacherous. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walked on even riskier ground in a recent TV interview when she attempted a theological defense of her support for abortion rights. Roman Catholic bishops consider her arguments on St. Augustine and free will so far out of line with church teaching that they have issued a steady stream of statements to correct her.
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Submitted by Virgil on Monday, June 02 @ 06:58:25 PDT (1569 reads)
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Study Resources: Determinism and Responsibility
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by Gordon H. Clark
Unless one has been recently disgusted by a surfeit of discussion on this sometimes barren topic, a religious thinker will almost invariably be carried away into a heated argument. This is better than to denominate the question barren, for such an attitude is agnostic, and to be disgusted is merely to be exhausted. Every Christian must face this problem squarely, and especially must the Calvinist so do, since he believes that much of the learned disrespect of Christianity is owing to the loose thinking of Catholics and Arminians.
Note: First published in The Evangelical Quarterly (London, 1932).
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Submitted by Timothy P. Martin on Monday, August 25 @ 17:22:42 PDT (1151 reads)
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News: A Young Earth—It’s Extremely Relevant
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by Tim Chaffey
Many Christians have been led to believe that the debate over the age of the earth is unimportant because it is “just a side issue.” In our new book Old-Earth Creationism on Trial, Dr. Jason Lisle and I provide abundant biblical, theological, and scientific evidence to demonstrate that this thinking is erroneous. In this article, allow me to share a brief part of my testimony to show you that this issue is extremely practical.
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Submitted by Virgil on Friday, August 22 @ 18:27:20 PDT (255 reads)
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News: Young Earth Creationist: Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids
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Far from becoming extinct 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs actually co-existed with early humans, and even helped in the construction of the pyramids.
This is the word of Vince Fenech, Evangelist pastor and director of a fully licensed, State-approved Creationist institution which admits children aged between four and 18. “Of course the ‘dinoceros’ existed (as Fenech pronounces the word). It is mentioned in the Book of Job. They were used to help build the pyramids,” he says, adding that this latter observation is only “his personal belief”, and that it does not form part of the school’s curriculum.
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Submitted by Norman Voss on Tuesday, August 19 @ 10:35:55 PDT (736 reads)
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Preterism: Flesh and Blood
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by Jerel Kratt
When Paul writes about “flesh and blood” not being able to inherit the kingdom of God, what does he mean? The purpose of this essay is to explore this question and hopefully present some answers. A natural part of this question would also involve answering the question, “what is the kingdom of God?” I will not set out to answer that question here, presuming that the reader will have some background already on the “kingdom of God”; I only wish to discuss the concept of “flesh and blood”. Let’s start with 1 Corinthians 15. Unless otherwise noted, all quotations of Scripture will be from Young’s Literal Translation.
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Submitted by Virgil on Friday, August 15 @ 12:50:49 PDT (320 reads)
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News: Left Behind Authors: Obama Not Antichrist
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This may be a first for a presidential campaign: A debate about whether one of the candidates is the Antichrist. The latest round began with the McCain campaign Web ad released earlier this month called "The One." The spot includes clips of Obama seeming to imply he is God's choice, shots of Charlton Heston, stairs in the clouds (to heaven?) and images that some say are meant to mimic those in the wildly popular "Left Behind" book series about the end of the world that feature the Antichrist.
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Submitted by Virgil on Wednesday, August 13 @ 14:46:28 PDT (235 reads)
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News: Brian McLaren at Abilene U
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Abilene Christian University will host a series of speakers this fall, bring on campus well-known individuals who will stimulate and challenge our minds and hearts. Among the speakers will be Brian McLaren, speaking on the topic Reaching Christians for Christ. According to the lectureship page, [the] aim is that participation in this event will challenge you to see life as ministry and equip you to live as a minister in your everyday life. Together we participate with God in His mission for the world. We hope you leave Summit even more committed to following Jesus. Through this conversation, our prayer is that Christ will be seen more plainly in our neighborhoods, office break rooms, community service and churches.
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Submitted by Virgil on Saturday, August 09 @ 19:16:14 PDT (792 reads)
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Preterism: Hal Lindsey, Obama, and the Antichrist
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By Gary DeMar
It’s a mystery to me why anyone would listen to Hal Lindsey on Bible prophecy. His 1970 Late Great Planet Earth is a lasting testimony to getting almost everything wrong. In 1977, Lindsey stated that if his 1948-1988 prophetic scenario did not come to pass, he would be a “bum.” Sorry to say, that Lindsey has stayed in prophecy business and is still making predictions He said the following in an articole posted on World Net Daily: “Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him—a messiah-like figure charismatic and glib….The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.”
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Submitted by Virgil on Sunday, August 03 @ 13:15:37 PDT (662 reads)
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by Philologos
15 Shevat, 5762
January 28, 2002
Exodus 6:2,3 God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am YHVH. I revealed Myself to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty (El Shaddai), and did not allow them to know Me by My name YHVH." (The Living Torah: A New Translation Based on Traditional Jewish Sources by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan)
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Submitted by Virgil on Thursday, July 31 @ 13:07:30 PDT (674 reads)
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Preterism: Andrew Perriman: New Testament Eschatology and the Emerging Church
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As many of you may already know, Andrew Perriman is the author of "The Coming of the Son of Man, New Testament Eschatology for an Emerging Church." Andrew recently sat for an interview with Pecipice Magazine and answers some really good questions, like If what you’re saying is true, that in many ways we have moved beyond eschatology, how should that change how we envision being Jesus followers in the here and now?
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