Someone recently asked me about my calling to ministry and whether I had any advice for people thinking about seminary. Here's what I told them with a few additional thoughts. When I Wanted to Be Famous I'm one of those really fortunate people in that I
Q&R
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The Bible serves as Spirit-inspired testimony pointing us to the actual revelation: the person of Jesus Christ. The Bible isn't trying to be the revelation—it's trying to show us where to find it.
Question: What do you think of those who argue that by being affirming we are out of step with the orthodox historical, global christian understanding of marriage? Response: The argument that affirming LGBTQ+ relationships puts us "out of step with orthodox historical Christianity" has a major flaw: there
Q&R: Is there more to Christianity than striving for perfection and trying to avoid sin? If so, what?
Response: Yes, there's more! In fact, striving for perfection is not even a component of Christianity. If you are trying to be perfect, please stop. You're making yourself miserable, and there's a decent chance you're making those around you miserable as well.
The Gospel of John contains passages like 8:44, where Jesus, addressing the Jewish, tells them that "You are of your father, the devil." This has been used throughout history to justify antisemitism and antisemitic acts. I'm curious about your perspective on this. Is there a
Question (edited for space, clarity): If the word commonly translated “eternal/forever” for hell only means a limited age or long-lasting, but Jesus uses the same word (aionios) to describe not only Hell but Heaven’s eternal life (John 3:16), is the life Jesus promises only temporary? The same
Question: Your answer presupposes that hell is theologically claimed to last forever only because of one mistranslated word, but that is not the case. Hell is also described by Jesus as other words that point us towards forever, such as “unquenchable” (Mark 9:33-34) or “without ceasing” (see Rev 14:
We don't know who wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews. It slid into the New Testament canon because it got categorized as a letter of Paul (though there were plenty of doubters of that as well). But the use of Greek, style, and literary composition is quite different.