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I would agree that Jesus wanted us to obey and not just feel guilty for sin. However on the meaning of repentance, I don't quite follow this discussion. I just did a search on repent and repentance in the the NRSV NT. It almost always means a general change in orientation. The closest I see to...

The Word commentary gives 5 explanations, but "The commonest view among commentators, ancient and modern, is that it was the different approach to worship that counted and that this was reflected in the quality of their gifts. Whereas Cain offered simply “some produce of the land,” Abel offered...

It's kind of a judgement call. It's not as effective as some other vaccines, but it seems good enough to be worth doing. There's no obvious down side. Maybe for others there is, but for me I've never seen any of the side effects and it doesn't even hurt. Unlike the new shingles vaccine, which...

I agree with the article. The problem with the divorce claim is that it’s trying to make a distinction in sins that I don’t think is justified Scripturally or in common sense. I would guess that everyone is in denial about some kinds of sins, and therefore they don’t repent from those sins. I...

Of course. Scientists can only tell you what current processes would produce. God could certainly intervene. I wonder, however, whether that's likely. The current universe, the earth, human bodies, etc. all seem designed for finite life. Paul talks about spiritual bodies, and Jesus appeared in...

I’ve been following the news pretty closely, and I’ve read the actual protocol. A couple of comments: * The church hasn’t agreed. A small but somewhat representative team came up with this plan. A lot of people are supporting it. But there are skeptics. No decision will be made until the...

The ones I read aren’t denominational, and they also summarize the major alternatives on each passage. They express a view, but I don’t always accept it. I don’t know what else you can do. Translations are also based on a view of the passage. They just don’t explain it. They also don’t give the...

I agree, though it's a bit more complicated than one might realize from this statement. Almost no parish ministers or even theologians are qualified to make independent judgements based on the original languages. In fact even translators and commentators use journal articles and monographs on...

Gospel is "good news." There's no reason that has to be one very specific set of good news. The term seems to be used in the NT in at least two ways. One has been outlined already, 1 Cor 15. But in the Synoptics it's "the good news of the Kingdom." Jesus said that he was here to bring the...

The title and OP talk about the righteousness of God and then start applying it to us. You need to be cautious about that. In the OT, righteousness is a covenantal concept. It means that the person is carrying out their obligations with respect to the covenant. But God and humans have different...

A lot of this information seems dated. Since Wescott and Hort worked, additional manuscripts have been added to the collection used. One particularly valuable set is papyrii, some of them older than what W & H used. But also translations into various languages, quotations in church fathers...

The pattern is that the later manuscripts from one textual family tended to add things to the text. So as translations start to be based on earlier manuscripts, they tend to become shorter. On the other hand, the additions didn't make up new doctrines, so there's nothing affected.

I just looked at their web page. They have one or two editorials per month. So this isn't unusual.

The concept of image is a metaphor. It's not a literal statement. There's no reason both can't be used. We're in the image of God, but as fallen people we're in the image of Adam. The image of God isn't removed, it's just imperfect. At the very least Christians are described as the image of...

Gen 1 seems to see humanity as a whole as in the image of God. That paragraph talks about mankind multiplying, being blessed, ruling over the earth. It's unlikely that it restricts the image to Adam. Christians commonly speak of the image being either corrupted or lost. I see why people would...

The NT speaks of us as the image of Adam, the image of Christ (both in 1 Cor 15:49) and the image of God (1 Cor 11:7 -- although women may not qualify). For what it's worth Calvin seems to have believed that the image of God remains in us, but corrupted. "Wherefore, although we grant that the...

The most likely outcome of continuing expansion is the Big Chill of heat death, both of which I included under collapse.

Current translations of all theological flavors translate "all types of evil," for good reason. http://www.crivoice.org/appearance.html I have to wonder if this is an example of shifts in meaning in the English between when the KJV was done and now.

The OP refers to a non-Scriptural source. I would have some concerns about it. There are dangers to an appearance of evil, in that they might imply to people that you think actual evil is OK. But God judges by reality, not appearance, and getting too caught up in appearances can lead to a...

You can’t just appoint a VP. It needs confirmation by both houses. You also can’t pardon someone from any penalties imposed by the Senate. You can pardon them for any Federal crimes they may have committed.