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Theology for the Masses

Conversations in Theology and its interaction with Culture

Student: ‘Professor, what happens at the Rapture?’

Liberal Professor: ‘Well, at the Rapture you walk up to your window, look outside, see people floating up into the sky, and then you should say to yourself, “Well, I’ll be damned!”‘

H/T: Euangelion

Reading Reflections – Cain, God, and SinToday

I have never taken up a “read through the Bible in a year ” plan until this year. To aid in my reading, I picked up the NLT’s 24/7. It is arranged by day so that you always know what you need read on a given day. The daily readings are arranged in a narrative-chronological order. Thus, I have been spending a lot of time in Genesis, with some excursions into Chronicles.

The nice thing about this product from the NLT is that there are nice margins where one can take notes. This is actually what sold me on the product. Accordingly, I have been writing notes and reflections in the margins of this useful little product.

I have tried to not get caught up in the details of the texts, but to focus and meditate upon the purposes of the passages at hand, to get a sense of what the writer(s) were trying to convey

Much of my notes in Genesis have been noting all of etiological moments. This is why X is such, that is why Z came to be. A great example of this is Genesis 10:6-20, the account of Ham and the origin of Babylon, Assyria, the Canaanites, Hittites, etcetera.

Something else that struck me, besides all of the etiology, was God’s pleading with Cain to master his sin in Genesis 4:6-7.

Genesis GenealogyJanuary 6

I was reading/journaling Genesis this afternoon and came across the genealogies of Cain and Seth. As I am sure several of you have noticed, there are some striking similarities between several names in the lists. [1]

Sons of Cain Sons of Seth Enoch Enosh… Methujael Mahalalel… Methushael Enoch Lamech Methuselah Lamech

Is there anything to the similarities? I am sure it can easily be chalked up to naming practices. [2] Just seeing if anyone had heard any other way of reading the similarities.

An Ellipsis denotes genealogical records omitted from the biblical record by myself
see Henry Francis Imler, Henry Leon Imler, Henry Michael Imer, Henry Thomas Imler, and Henry Reed Imler

What I am - Not What I am NotJanuary 6

Love this quote:

But don’t build your church on what you’re not

via Who Cares What You’re Not? - Craig G.

We conservatives gotta be careful that we don’t define ourselves as what we are not, but rather as what we are, cives regni dei. [1]

citizens of the kingdom of God

Miraculous Gifts For Today: Critiquing Cessationist Exegesis of I Corinthians 13-14 (1/3)January 6

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