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 …
Tag: Bible
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 …
A little light reading.
Over to the dark side. For a bit of fun I like reading blogs by the militant Atheists. It keeps me on my toes when thinking about God. This one made me smile. The whole tone of the piece is so wide of the mark as to be laughable. People who write things like this …
Prosperity?
This evening in the Lent Group at Holy Trinity Huddersfield we looked at a passage which contained what is sometimes referred to as the most abused verse in the Bible: Jeremiah 29:11. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a …
Ephesians in one verse
I recently blogged on Who Wrote Ephesians. Writing about a book of the Bible without saying anything about what the Bible or the book of the bible I was talking about. So I set myself a different task, to see if I could summarise the letter to the Ephesians in one verse from that book. …
History lessons
And God saw that it was good In the last blog I said that the first chapters of Genesis were not Science.If I said they were not history either I would expect a certain response, especially from conservative Christians. So let me explain. History is written by people who are there at the time. Not …
Beginnings
Do you believe in Genesis or in evolution and the big bang theory? That is a question hat is raised by both the very conservative end of Christianity, and by atheists wanting to make Christianity look ridiculous. I believe both. Or all three, grammar was never my strong point. Two things about Genesis: It was …
Confidence
Confidence is something people admire, even subconsciously. there was an experiment which showed this on TV recently. A group of about 12 to 15 people were in a room with two doors. They were told that there would soon be a fire alarm and they had to leave by one door. What they were not …
God exists by two falls to a submission
Debating the existence of God God exists by two falls to a submission, or so the Monty Python boys told us all those years ago. An idea that sounds silly, as does a lot of Python, but is no sillier than determining the existence of God by debate. Which is why the conversation on the …
Making an ass of myself 