One of the many common arguments as to why homosexuality is ok, is because Jesus was supposedly silent on the subject. It’s an interesting, albeit weak, argument. Others are somewhat like it: Jesus never said anything about it explicitly. Why? Because Jesus doesn’t care about what people do with their bits and bobs when having [...]
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Jesus never spoke against homosexuality … so it’s ok?
Posted in Healing and Restoration, Quotes, Redeemed Sexuality, Sexuality, Theology Study on 24 October, 2011 (Monday) | 2 Comments »
Adolph Saphir: On God Alone
Posted in Theology Study on 11 October, 2011 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
Adolph Saphir, a Messianic Jew who lived in the 19th century (see left) wrote something that I recently stumbled upon in a book, ‘The Deep Things of God: how the Trinity Changes Everything’ by Fred Sanders: “And now the rule of man began. For if instead of God we have the Bible, the task of [...]
Lord’s Passover Meal
Posted in Theology Study on 5 September, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
Some people reckon the Lord’s Passover Meal (Eucharist/ Last Supper/ Lord’s Supper) is merely symbolic, and some don’t even celebrate it at all. This is the extreme view of Reformer Zwingli, which views the LS as being merely ‘symbolic’ and deny the connection with the Passover meal in the OT. The Catholic and Lutheran [...]
Lens of interpretation – Matthew 15:24
Posted in Hermeneutics, Jewish/Israeli/Hebrew, Meditation on God, Preaching (Homiletics), Sexuality, Theology Study, USSA on 13 August, 2011 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
As I’m going through the topic of theology in the Bible, it’s becoming clear to me that there are many positions which people take in approaching the Bible. For me, I was convicted a long time ago that the best, and really the only ultimate way, to interpret Scripture, especially the New Testament, is to [...]
Historical and Exegetical Essays
Posted in Bible college, Bible translations, Homelitics, Old Testament, Theology Study on 10 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Later this semester at Bible college, I’m scheduled to write two essays for the topic ‘Old Testament Background and Methodology’: one is a historical essay, which will be on the geographical and historical background of the passage (I’m going to do that on Judges 사사기 17-18); and a second exegetical essay. For that one I [...]
Karl Barth
Posted in Bible college, Theology Study on 8 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
Today in Theology II class, I heard about the Swiss theologian Karl Barth: until today I had no idea that Barth lived through to the 20th century. For some reason I had always thought he lived and died in the 17th. I noticed that there was an article on this great man in Time Magazine [...]
Preaching and the candy store
Posted in Bible college, Grief, Hell and Judgement, Homelitics, Lamentation and Woe, Old Testament, Theology Study on 1 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to new books, I’m like a kid in a candy store. Today I gorged myself on some theological candy with the arrival of the book Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures by Kenton C. Anderson. Anderson is the head of a homiletics organisation in North America and [...]
Week 1 at Wesley
Posted in Bible college, Homelitics, Old Testament, Theology Study on 27 July, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
So now I have finished my first week at Wesley! I think by far the easiest topic for me will be Old Testament Background and Methodology- given my real passion for the OT- followed by Homelitics II and Theological Foundations II. TFII will involve lots of reading and a lot of in-depth thinking: in short [...]
Theological Foundations class day 1
Posted in Bible college, Theology Study on 26 July, 2011 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I started my theological foundations class: hoo roo! I’ve purchased one of my required readings for the class, The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything, by Fred Sanders, but am yet to get Louis Berkhof’s Manual of Christian Doctrine. My first assignment is to write an essay on the Lord’s Supper [...]
