The question of who is Jesus is one that Jesus Himself asked! "Who do men say that I am?" He asked His disciples one day. Why He would wonder about the publics' understanding of His identity shows that it is of vital importance. In fact your very life - your eternal destiny - hinges on how you answer. Who do you say He is?
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A Biblical Ecology
In my last post "From the Creed," Creation: A Philosophy You Can Live With, I made the point that only the Christian confession of God as Creator provided a philosophy of the natural world that one could live with. It provided escape from the Gnostic dilemma of physical self-destruction on the one hand or the gnawing guilt of hypocrisy on the other. A similar tension regarding the natural world exists today; and only the fact that God is Creator provides a view of the natural world that works on the pragmatic level.
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Mention the Trijicon controversy among Christians and some will think you're referring to some obscure theological crisis long since covered with the dust of history. On the contrary, this little mentioned story in recent news illustrates the inevitable overlap between politics and religion; church and state.
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Creation - A Philosophy You Can Live With
The last thing said of God the Father is He is "Maker of heaven and earth..." - a fact plainly taught in scripture when we read in Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..."
This was a significant statement in the early years of the Church given the teachings of Gnosticism prevalent at the time.
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The recent earthquake centered in Port Au Prince, Haiti has given rise to questions of a religious nature. Where is God in all this? Does God have anything to do at all with events like this? How? Why? Is this an instance of His wrath?
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That God is Father and every good notion of fatherhood flows out of Him provides the setting for the next statement of the creed: that God is almighty. There is wisdom in the sequence of descriptions of God here.
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In my sermon yesterday, The Transforming Power of Seeing Jesus, I proposed that our ultimate transformation into glorified saints will be the result of seeing Jesus with our physical eyes. Even as the apostle John says,
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