If our bodies are not us but only something we wear, then there is no reason why they should need to be resurrected from the grave rather than God giving us new, never-before-been-worn bodies, fresh...
If our bodies are not us but only something we wear, then there is no reason why they should need to be resurrected from the grave rather than God giving us new, never-before-been-worn bodies, fresh...
And you have failed to carefully read what I said. I did not say that they had no sense of eternity. What as I was -- and I ask you to note carefully -- is that they had no sense of eternity as...
All translations are, to some degree, interpretive. All simply to a degree. Some over-simplify. Aionios has a range of uses, centered around an age or era or eon (you can hear "eon" in the word). The...
How one answers that would depend on what they conceive time to be. If one conceives of time as part of the time/space continuum, then time was created along with space and matter and therefore is...
I don't know how common a phrasing it was. But the context also has much to do with the meaning of a word or phrase in a sentence. Words do really have a meaning by themselves, they have a semantic...
If the meaning is essentially the same whether the author says it one way or another, I don't think the Holy Spirit necessarily has a preference. I don't subscribe to the "dictation" theory of...
In the case of "predestination," I don't think Paul had in mind that God predestined specific individuals to something but that God predestined a certain class of people to something, namely, that...
There are other ways of indicating "a long time ago." I don't know that there are ways that are necessarily simpler for Greek readers of speakers. Perhaps some idiomatic ways. In English, we have...
And he does not say, "Tell us everything that is going to happen in the future." The test is not about omniscience but about power and authority. So in verse 23, "Tell us what the future holds, so we...
Not apo but pro. Apo would mean more like "from" times eternal.
"Before times eternal" is a legitimate way to translate it. Young's has it as "before times of ages." Wuest, "before eternal...
When God is the referent of aionion, then it can refer to something that is everlasting. But that meaning derives from God as the referent, not from the meaning of the word on its own. Even with God...
I already addressed that in an earlier post. Isaiah 41:21ff does not set a limit, nor does it say it is limitless. That is not the point of Isaiah 41. God can tell what he is going to do; something...
Kinda. Let everything be measured by the Scripture, even if it upsets some of the theology we have grown accustomed to.
St. Augustine, near the end of his career, wrote a book called...
For upwards of forty years, I accepted the systematic theology view, and the proof texts they offered concerning this, and did not bother much to investigate. Perhaps there was a time for simply...
Which qualification prevents a repentant brother or sister from restoration to ministry?
Well, for instance, in verse 2, Paul says, "the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures." What does that suggest about the gospel in relation to the OT. And how did...
So, universalism leads to divorce?
John, it looks like you have put a limit to restoration where Scripture does not limit it.
Yes, until it gets better. Restoration to ministry is a process that may take a while.
Well, Nikos, who here has suggested that love allows anything to get by. Since I was the one who just posted above about love, let me point out that I also spoke about restoration in the context of...
Yes, there are standards, and if a fallen brother repents and meets those standards, he can be restored to ministry. God's standards do not prohibit restoration.
I've got a lot I can say about it, and have said elsewhere. But I don't want it to end up being one person leading. I would rather see some discussion happen, and I thought this would be a good...
I think restoration of a fallen brother who has repented IS the high moral ground. God's grace IS the high moral ground -- I can think of nothing higher or more moral than God, who is love. It is...
I have not said that God is subject to time, although I do believe that God, in his sovereignty, can choose to limit his interaction with us to the realm of time. Has he done so? I don't know, but I...
Yes, ages piling themselves up in a continuous succession is terrific imagery.
No, I don't think we need to stop with how the early Hebrew readers (or even the later Hebrew, early Church readers)...