Back to Hebrews. I have looked at the book out of order and in a number of ways but from chapter 12 on the writer starts to bring the various threads together, and I will too. Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance …
Tag: Jesus
I fought the law…
...and the law lost. When I was at school the headmaster tried to keep the number of rules to a minimum. Rules were for a reason, so with 700 students and several teachers changing classrooms at the same time there was a rule, you walk down corridors on the left, It made changing lessons so …
Let’s talk about sex.
Eroticism in the Bible Web surfing a couple of days ago I came across the Answering Christian site. Particularly a blog from 2011 on why sexual language in the Bible means the Bible cannot be the word of God. Why? There are Christians who have the same problem. To them there is the spiritual and …
Worry
Jesus said: “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap …
Moses
Jesus is better than Moses, ner, ner, ner. This is not the tone of the next section of Hebrews, We are moving in to a long, long section of the book which deals with Jesus being greater than the Jewish Law given by Moses, so first he deals wit the one who brought the law, …
Hebrews in Haiku 3
The law, it is good But Jesus Christ alone is Greater than the law 40 blogs of Lent day 12
Dumbing Down
Sound bites are all about dumbing down. They have to be, no intellectual worth his or her salt would be unintelligent enough or monosyllabic enough to use short pithy little sayings. It's not right innit? But when we read the Bible what do we get? There is a lot of law in the Bible. The …
Life after life?
I have just finished re-reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, a really good comedic read. Chapter 7 ends with one of my favourite cliffhangers: "Gordon Way's astonishment at being shot dead was nothing to his astonishment at what happened next." What happens after death is a question that fascinates even atheist authors …
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 …
What does Easter mean
What does Easter mean? I mean on its own, because there is a lot said about the victory of the cross, and it is impossible to separate the events of Good Friday from that of Easter Sunday. But Ill try. Bit first a look at the passion. Jesus last words from the cross,"It is finished," …
Making an ass of myself 