 |
|
|
Years ago they used to preach "O we are going to walk on streets of gold." I would say, "I don't need the gold up there. I've got to have it down here.
-- Benny Hinn, Praise-a-thon, April 2, 1991
|
|
| |
Submitted by Virgil on Friday, August 29 @ 12:01:15 PDT (9 reads)
|
News: Dead Sea Scrolls to go digital on Internet
|
|
 |
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.
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Thursday, August 28 @ 06:41:06 PDT (117 reads)
|
News: Pelosi gets unwanted lesson in Catholic theology
|
|
 |
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.
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Monday, June 02 @ 06:58:25 PDT (1498 reads)
|
Study Resources: Determinism and Responsibility
|
|
 |
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).
|
|
Submitted by Timothy P. Martin on Monday, August 25 @ 17:22:42 PDT (789 reads)
|
News: A Young Earth—It’s Extremely Relevant
|
|
|
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.
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Friday, August 22 @ 18:27:20 PDT (195 reads)
|
News: Young Earth Creationist: Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids
|
|
|
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.
|
|
Submitted by Norman Voss on Tuesday, August 19 @ 10:35:55 PDT (663 reads)
|
Preterism: Flesh and Blood
|
|
 |
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.
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Friday, August 15 @ 12:50:49 PDT (254 reads)
|
News: Left Behind Authors: Obama Not Antichrist
|
|
 |
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.
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Wednesday, August 13 @ 14:46:28 PDT (182 reads)
|
News: Brian McLaren at Abilene U
|
|
 |
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.
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Saturday, August 09 @ 19:16:14 PDT (713 reads)
|
Preterism: Hal Lindsey, Obama, and the Antichrist
|
|
|
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.”
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Sunday, August 03 @ 13:15:37 PDT (613 reads)
|
|
|
|
|
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)
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Thursday, July 31 @ 13:07:30 PDT (612 reads)
|
Preterism: Andrew Perriman: New Testament Eschatology and the Emerging Church
|
|
 |
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?
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Monday, July 28 @ 12:51:25 PDT (458 reads)
|
News: The Doctrine Police
|
|
|
My friend Bill Spears submitted a wonderful podcast and I really wanted to share it with the rest of Planet Preterist readers. This is a podcast recorded by Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings from thegodjourney.com. The show is "designed to facilitate an ever-expanding conversation with folks who are thinking outside the box of organized religion. Our primary desire is to encourage people on their spiritual journey by providing insightful commentary on Scriptures, current events and cultural trends, as well as fielding questions related to the challenging spiritual issues of real life."
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Friday, July 25 @ 08:12:02 PDT (384 reads)
|
Preterism: 'Understanding End Times Prophecy' by Paul Benware: A Review
|
|
 |
by Gary DeMar
Paul N. Benware’s revised and expanded edition of Understanding End Times Prophecy includes a chapter on Preterism. This is a good sign. Preterists teach that certain prophetic passages have already been fulfilled (e.g., Matt. 24), while futurists claim that these same passages are yet to be fulfilled. The debate centers (mostly) on how specific time indicators like “near,” “shortly,” “quickly,” and “this generation” should be interpreted. Benware also claims that preterists regularly mix “the literal and allegorical” which results in “very inconsistent interpretations to a passage.” The following quotation encapsulates Benware’s argument on how he believes preterists interpret certain prophetic texts:
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Monday, July 21 @ 14:34:42 PDT (783 reads)
|
News: Christianity Today: Second Coming Ecology
|
|
|
Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, my children were leaving the little Presbyterian church in College Place, Washington, where they had been attending a program. They looked up at the sky, and a verse they had read in the Bible leapt to their minds. Jesus said that in the last days, the sun would be darkened, and the moon would not give its light. The sky was so preternaturally dark that my girls thought that the end of the world was upon us. They joined hands and ran the several blocks to our home.
|
|
Submitted by Virgil on Sunday, July 20 @ 18:52:13 PDT (410 reads)
|
News: Creation and Covenant
|
|
|
by N.T. Wright
What I mean by ‘creation and covenant’ will become clear if we consider a couple of Psalms where the two are joined together. What I intend by using that pair of evocative terms as an initial way in to Paul will then become clear if we consider three central passages in which the same themes play the same kind of roles. This will open the way to a more detailed consideration of what, I shall argue, must be regarded as part of the fundamental structure of his thought, and how it relates to the other themes which will occupy us in subsequent chapters.
|
|
|  |
|
|
| Thursday, July 17 | | · | Advanced Eschatology (Part 1) (20) |
| Friday, July 11 | | · | New Book: The Prophecies of Daniel 2 (24) |
| Sunday, July 06 | | · | Hebrew tablet tells of resurrection before Jesus (16) |
| Thursday, July 03 | | · | Don K. Preston in a Major Four Night Formal Debate (21) |
| Sunday, June 29 | | · | A Call for Evangelical Rhetorical Accountability (6) |
| Saturday, June 28 | | · | Get Out of Your Own Way (6) |
| Thursday, June 26 | | · | How 'All' Israel Will Be Saved (30) |
| Tuesday, June 24 | | · | Language, Being, God, and the Three Stages of Theistic Evidence by Dallas Willard (0) |
| · | Many Dutch prepare for 2012 apocalypse (4) |
| Saturday, June 21 | | · | Water on Mars (57) |
Older Articles
|
|
|
|
