What Christians believe and teach should find its basis in the Christian scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. However, the author contends that, instead, Greek philosophy has influenced church doctrine from early on in the church age
What’s This Blog About?
Some of the reasons I am blogging are for me. Surprisingly enough, people start a blog for their own benefit. A lot of bloggers out there have posted blogs about the benefits of blogging on their blogs… while blogging. (All right, I will not do that again.)
Hidden in Plain View
The angel told the shepherds, in plain English (if you are reading an English translation), that they brought good news and that that news would bring great joy to all people – a savior is born, which is Christ the Lord.
A Ransom for All
It is clear in scripture that God wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth. There is no dispute about that. Passages like the one we are looking at here are unequivocal and the message is so explicit that, rather than attempting to limit their scope, we should be looking closer at the passages that seem to deny the plan of God to save everyone in the end. We have begun doing just that in this blog.
All Things Reconciled
Check it out, this is the passage that caught me off guard and changed the way I see things. I found myself on a Universal Reconciliation website. I knew about UR and was going to click right out of the site knowing that what I was looking for would not be there.
Something stopped me, however, and I clicked on a tab that caught my eye. There it was: a passage of scripture that was very familiar to me, as a matter of fact, it was among my favorites (and still is). A recurring word was accentuated throughout by enlarging the font and changing its color. It looked something like this:
The Mystery of His Will
There is an event, beyond which we know nothing. It seems to exist in the farthest reaches of the future, it is a wonderful event and it seems to be the culmination of everything God has planned since before time began. But, we know very little about it and, again, we don’t know anything about what comes after it. I am talking about the point in the history of all creation when…
By the Numbers
UNIVERSAL RECONCILIATION IN THE SCRIPTURES Back in 1974 (yes that was before paved roads) we purchased our first new car. My wife and I agreed that I would pick the model and she would pick […]
To My Kids That Missed It
I know you are scared.
I so wanted you to be ready when I got back. I looked for you, but you weren’t there. I am not going to lie, its going to be bad. I imagine you knew that when you heard that there were millions of people gone, many you knew. I am sorry, but things have changed since I last emailed you.
Its going to get messed up fast!
“Forever” Inconsistencies
The concept of eternity is difficult to grasp. For instance, is it time without an end or the complete absence of time? Either way, it is an abstract idea that we have been wrestling with since Plato first introduced the concept. Yes, Plato the Greek philosopher, introduced the idea of “forever”.
Eulogy for a Boy
There’s something inherently wrong with a grandfather giving the eulogy at his grandson’s funeral. But here we are. Jackson A. Sparks, a quiet and shy 8-year-old boy, marveled over dinosaurs, superheroes, baseball and his big […]
Jude, The Universalist?
A LOOK AT JUST TWO VERSES The writers of the New Testament believed in the ultimate universal reconciliation of all things, at least that has been my contention. A comparison of two passages from the […]
Sketches on the way 