Following on from a fascinating facebook discussion, I thought it useful to revisit this interesting little subject. What exactly is going on here? Galatians 4:21-31 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by [...]
View Post Abraham, allegory, facebook, faith, galatians, genesis, hagar, isaac, ishmael, sarah, typology, worksThere's been an ongoing debate in the smh about Jesus and homosexual behaviour, generated by the story of a Christian school and a self-identifying gay student. As always, good points are made but the usual cliché, “Jesus said nothing about homosexuality”, was aired a few times. Here's my published response, Interpreting the Gospel truth There [...]
View Post genesis, letters, matthew, sexual ethics, smhI think possibly the most frustrating thing about current discussions within the church on various theological matters is the utter chutzpah that revisionists have when talking about how they “read” the Bible. Now, maybe I belong to an arcane era of education but when I was growing up reading was about comprehension – ie understanding [...]
View Post bible, changing attitude, colin coward, genesis, matthew, radio 4, reform, rod thomas, todayThis from Quaerentia Today, I’m going to steal a post from the incomparable Futility Closet (an ever-present source of amusement, irrelevance and, yes, futility). As he was visiting his parishioners one Saturday afternoon, a new pastor stopped at one house and found that no one answered the door. It was clear that someone was [...]
View Post bible, futility closet, genesis, mark meynell, proof-texting, quaerentia, revelationSunday's sermon at Neutral Bay Anglican on Jude 1-13 raised, once again, the issue of the presence of the Second Person of the Trinity in the Old Testament. In particular Jude makes the striking claim that… Jude 1:5 … the Lord [Jesus] delivered his people out of Egypt… A quite remarkable statement, but one which [...]
View Post Abraham, Angel of the LORD, christophany, exodus, genesis, glenn scrivener, hagar, jacob, moses, theophanyAndrew M Brown had a fascinating article in the UK Telegraph recently on the question of how men and women handle relationship breakdowns. A study of undergraduate-age men and women in North Carolina has shown that men appear to suffer greater anguish than women when a love affair or relationship ends. I think this finding [...]
View Post Andrew M Brown, cleaving, ephesians, genesis, hosea, husbands, jesus, love, marriage, research, ruth, telegraph, wivesClassic from Glen: Finally! JW’s knocked on my door this morning. First time ever. An older guy and a younger Polish woman. So I threw some Gen 19:24 shapes their way. “To which Jehovah are you witnessing, the LORD out of the heavens or the LORD on the earth?” The woman seemed quite interested. The [...]
View Post 1 Corinthians, Arians, gender roles, genesis, glen scrivener, headship, jehovah's witnesses, misogyny, ontology, trinity, trinity in the ot