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  • Atonement: Redemption

    [This post is part of the Atonement series] Tomorrow is Good Friday, and of course Sunday is Easter. This then may turn out to be the last post explicitly dealing with the atonement. Not because I’m finished studying it (especially with respect to the issue brought up here) but my original commitment was in lieu of Lent,…

  • Atonement: Framework

    The method I’m outlining here, is like that of filling in a jigsaw puzzle. Once again, it comes from the book to the right, and the outline here comes from their chapter covering the same topic. Interestingly, much of what we need to know about the atonement comes from the early chapters of Genesis. From…

  • Atonement: Fulfillment

    [This post is part of the Atonement series] After looking at some foundational Old Testament passages, it will be helpful now to continue on into the New Testament seeing specifically how Christ’s work on the cross is the culmination of those texts and fulfills them. Only the last passage, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, was specifically prophetic, but…

  • Atonement: Objections

    [This post is part of the Atonement series] Rather than pushing too far forward with the limited/unlimited issue with regards to the atonement, I thought it might be better to put forward, and defend if necessary, the view of penal substitutionary view of the atonement. It seems in reality that the limited/unlimited question is a secondary concern,…

  • Atonement: A shift in focus

    [This post is part of the Atonement series] After reading a bit further (roughly to where I had gotten before), I decided that the idea to study the atonement was indeed a good one and a good use of time (or a good donation of time for a kind of quasi-lent). However, I’ll be honest, The Death…

  • The Temple and The Church’s Mission

    [This post is part of the Eschatology series] This book I had actually started back in the fall as part of an investigation for a class on the ancient Near East. I was looking into the significance and purpose of temples, and G.K. Beale in this book has a rather extensive section on the cosmic…

  • Adventures in Eschatology

    [This post is part of the Eschatology series] So here’s the deal. While I would like to write about other things in this space, since I am finally taking Eschatology this semester, I know finally have to come to grips with what I think about it. I think that might be why it is the…

  • Pharisees (C) revisited

    This post might actually succeed in being shorter than usual, but we’ll say. I debated importing the comment thread from Idolatry: Pharisees (C) into a post of its own, but I’ll just comment on it briefly instead. Starting with comment 3 a user named Pelgian7 offered insights obliquely related to the actual content of the…

  • Further Thoughts on the Gospel

    It was inevitable that while reading Michael Horton’s follow up to Christless Christianity, titled The Gospel Driven Life, I would run into more thoughts to enhance the post from yesterday. In it, Horton captures the idea of 1 Corinthians 15 in an more overarching manner and describes it as this: The Good News is that…

  • Thoughts on the Gospel

    Recently, as in yesterday, Rob Bell made another attempt at “tweeting” the gospel. Now I say this not to pick on Bell (for reasons why, see the last idolatry post) but to use it as a starting point for discussing the gospel. Given Bell’s last attempt, this is actually an improvement and does come quite…