The preachers' nightmare, Trinity Sunday. How do we explain that God is three persons and one God? It does not make sense. Simply the doctrine says: The Father is fully God, but the Father is not the Son nor the Holy Spirit. Jesus, the Son, is fully God, but the Son is not the Father …
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Something dramatic happened
Something indescribably dramatic happened on the day of Pentecost. What it was I don't know. Here's how the Bible tries, and fails, to describe it. On the day of Pentecost all the Lord’s followers were together in one place. Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house …
Living together
Look at these Christians, how they disagree with each other. This is about apologetics, a bit anyway. Bear with me, I will get to a point. A couple of years ago I spent a long time looking at the book of Colossians. An interesting letter in that it deals with a heresy in the early …
Theology changes its mind (part 6)
So what about Paul? If anyone wants proof that homosexuality is wrong from the New Testament point of view usually quote St Paul. Just three short passages: Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped …
Theology changes its mind (part 5)
I fought the law... In the last 2 blogs I've looked at what Jesus said about homosexuality and whether the sin of Sodom was homosexuality or something else. Now I'm now looking at the Jewish law. Under the constraints I've put myself under this is harder. These are among my constraints: So history must be …
Theology changes its mind (part 4)
Yesterday it was the words of Jesus. Today I want to look at the Old Testament and Sodom. Yes Sodom, what could be more damning than that? We even have an English word, sodomy, derived from that name so it must be about gay sex, mustn't it? Well yes and no. This is what happened …
Theology changes its mind (part 3)
What did Jesus say? Not quite WWJD, bur close. This is what is often quoted as evidence that Jesus thought that homosexuality was wrong: Matthew 19:4-5: (ESV) He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother …
Theology changes its mind (part 2)
How to interpret the Bible Before we can look at how we are to interpret the Bible in the light of science we have to define how we have to look at scripture. Now I come from an Evangelical tradition as well as an Anglican tradition. I really want to see if it is possible …
Theology changes its mind (part 1)
Theology changes its mind, but so does science. About a month ago I wrote in the blog "What is Theology for" that we should be looking at how we interpret the Bible in the light of what science is telling us. First let me say this. What science says isn't fixed. It changes. Often. Sometimes …
Churches and the media
Last week I read a blog. Nothing unusual about that, it was a blog urging churches to use the media more. I found it via a Facebook or Twitter link, or it could have been via the blogging site WordPress, I can't remember where I linked from or who it was by and I can't …
Making an ass of myself 