Jeremiah 31:34, God, and Time
Perhaps the most common view—widely considered the orthodox view—of God in modern Christianity is God is outside time. Divine timelessness is generally taken to mean: God does not experience nor recognize any sequence of moments in time God experiences every event in what humans call “history” as eternally present More…
19: First Healings in the Galilee
And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out…
What is Dignity?
Dignity is seemingly a little thing. We rarely discuss dignity in theology other than as a minor anthropological category. We rarely discuss dignity in Christian living other than as something we should somehow “respect in others.” Almost every religious worldview throws “dignity” around, from atheists to Muslims, and we all…
18: First Rejection at Nazareth
We often think of rejection as a “one-time thing”—a public personality does or says “one thing,” resulting in their “cancelation.” This “cancellation” phenomenon is a very late modern idea, primarily after the advent of social media and high-speed communications. In the ancient world, “the street” could be fickle for years,…
