History Of The Bible
The Lindisfarne Gospels, penned around 800 CE, has an illustration of Matthew writing his gospel. God is drawing back the curtains of revelation while an angel double checks Matthew’s text against a divine scroll. Such was the ninth century idea of how the bible came to be. Reality is far less tidy[1].A Defence of Partial Preterism
Central to the Christian thesis is the divinity of Jesus. Little wonder critics such as Bertrand Russell[1] and Signal[2] complain - ‘no amount of Christian theological acrobatics will ever solve the problems engendered by the historical reality that a promised imminent fulfilment made two thousand years ago did not occur as expected by the New Testament. Simply stated, Jesus is never coming back, not then, not now, not ever’.
Why Did Jesus Have To Die?
The early church primarily understood the question; why did Jesus have to die? - in terms of overcoming the devil. In both the ransom and Christos Victor motif the purpose of the cross was to overcome Satin's lawful hold (because of the fall) over humanity.
Why Did God Behave So Badly In The Old Testament
Why does the benevolent God of the bible behave so badly in the Old Testament? The hidden assumption behind this objection is that because the bible is a constitution the images and descriptions of God should all be consistently Godlike (whatever that means). Right Sizing The Bible
I was brought up to believe that the biblical story covered the entire history of the cosmos; but by the time I reached university I was keenly aware that this view of the bible was susceptible to some fairly thorny questions-namely why would God take thirteen billion years to create a near infinite universe for what amounts to a few millennia of very finite human existence?
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