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Is Faith Inherently Irrational?
Category: General
Tags: Faith, Theology
…“have faith” is to simply trust God to be the loving and just God he promises to be. To have faith in the Bible is to trust the people who wrote it and the God who inspired it to truthfully communicate what its meant to communicate. This faith — like…
Tips on what NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith
Category: General
Tags: Abuse, Christian Living, Doubt, Faith, support
…Bible?” This question is used as a litmus test; ie. if you haven’t been reading your Bible daily, well, OF COURSE, that’s why you’re having problems. This question exposes a dualistic mindset that seeks easy answers to complex problems.Not only is this question hurtful, it presumes every spiritual struggle can…
Judgment and Idolatry
Category: General
Tags: Adam and Eve, Idolatry, Judgment, Love, Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Topics: Following Jesus
…attempts to position ourselves as judges rather than leaving all judgment to God, as the bible consistently commands (e.g. Rom 14:10; James 4:11-12). By eating from the forbidden tree, Eve was guilty of idolatry. Accepting the serpent’s false and untrustworthy depiction of God, Eve stopped trusting God to be her…
Conservatives and Liberals in the Same Kingdom
Category: General
Tags: Conflict, Division, Love, Political Idolatry, Politics, Unity
…thought about their radically different kingdom-of-the-world views. This silence suggests that they had something in common that dwarfed their individual political differences. To be sure, Jesus’ life and teachings would undoubtedly transform the trust both had in their political views if they would allow it. At the very least, the…
Who is Responsible for Job’s Suffering?
Category: General
Tags: Book of Job, Cruciform Theology, Suffering, Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…Job. He simply removed the hedge that had up to this point been protecting Job against Satan (1:10). Once Yahweh agrees to put his way of governing the world to a test, he tells Satan, “[e]verything [Job] has is in your power,“ and Satan even has to go out from…
The All-or-Nothing of Kingdom Living
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Love
Verse: 1 Corinthians 13
…kingdom is nothing without it—then it seems to me we should regard the command to love to be the ultimate test of orthodoxy. To fail to love like Jesus is the worst form of heresy, regardless of how true one’s beliefs are. Demons believe true things, James tells us, but…
Knowing and Experiencing God
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Revelation, The Holy Spirit
Topics: Attributes and Character
…our conception and experience of God along the lines of a Rorschach test. That is, I submit that the way we imagine and experience God says at least as much about us as it does God. When we yield to the Spirit, we are empowered to discern the true glory…
The God Who Stoops
Category: General
Tags: Bible Interpretation, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
The way that one imagines God can be thought of along the lines of a Rorschach test. That is, I submit that the way a person imagines and experiences God says at least as much about that person as it does God. The more estranged people are from God, the…
Early Anabaptists and the Centrality of Christ
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Cruciform Theology, Menno Simons
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
…aspect of the Anabaptist approach to Scripture that set them apart was their “hermeneutics of obedience.” The Anabaptists held that understanding and a willingness to obey are closely related. We might compare the way the Bible functioned within the Anabaptist hermeneutic to a Rorschach test: what one discerns when they…
“Purgatory” and the Judgment Seat of Christ
Category: General
…perfecting (or “completing”, teleo) holiness out of reverence for God” (2 Cor. 7:1). This purification is to take place in the community of disciples who constitute the bride that is making herself ready for the return of her groom (Rev. 19:7) which is why Peter says that “judgment begins with…
The First Fruit of the Coming Non-Violent Creation
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
…to put on display now what the world will look like when God fully reigns over it in the future. In theological terms we’re to be “the eschatological community.” One way the New Testament expresses this truth is by referring to Kingdom people as the “first fruits” of a coming…
FAQs
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd
…a unique program that combined historical with contemporary theology that greatly appealed to me. What’s your greatest weakness? Impatience. From as early as I can remember I’ve had a rather acute sense that life was finite (see my Spiritual Journey). On matters that I feel are very important, I sometimes…
What is the significance of Exodus 16:4?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism
Verse: Exodus 16
The Lord commands the Israelites to gather only enough bread for one day while in the wilderness. “In that way,” the Lord says, “I will test them, whether they will follow my instruction or not.” Testing people to find out how they will resolve their character only makes sense if…
What is the significance of Judges 2:20–3:5?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism
Verse: Judges 2
…that God tests people in order “to know” their character cannot be taken at face value. If Scripture cannot err, it seems we must accept that such testing was the means by which God found out how people would freely develop their character. This is explicitly declared in this passage….
What is the significance of 2 Chronicles 32:31?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism
Verse: Chronicles 32
“God left [Hezekiah] to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.” God tests his covenant partners to discover whether they will choose to remain faithful to him, an exercise that is absurd if God exhaustively foreknows exactly how faithful every person will…
Isn’t Faith Inherently Irrational?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Apologetics, Faith, Q&A
Topics: Apologetics, Faith & Doubt
…“have faith” is to simply trust God to be the loving and just God he promises to be. To have faith in the Bible is to trust the people who wrote it and the God who inspired it to truthfully communicate what its meant to communicate. This faith — like…
Lord or Legend?: Wrestling with the Jesus Dilemma
Category: General
Topics: Apologetics, Christology
…scholarly research and argumentation that support our longer work. Judging from the reviews thus far, it seems we’ve succeeded. Our hope is that believers and non-believers alike will find in this work a very compelling case for accepting that the Jesus of the Gospels is rooted in history, not legend….
Isn’t Open Theism outside of historic orthodoxy?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism What it is and is not
…to seize a dimension of the biblical portrait of God which the classical western tradition missed because of its overemphasis on control and its indebtedness to platonic philosophy). More research needs to be done on the history of the open view, but my own research thus far has found advocates…
The God Who Over-Knows The Future
Category: General
Tags: God's Sovereignty, Open Theism, Possibility, Providence
Topics: Free Will and the Future
…each and every one. Hence, whatever possibility ends up coming to pass, we may say that from all eternity God was preparing for just this possibility, as though it were the only possibility that could ever possibly occur. Even when possibilities occur that are objectively improbable—and to this extent surprise…
Part 6 (of 15): Evolutionary Conservatism
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
…(11-13). For this reason, Peterson believes that every advance in the evolutionary process reflects a sort of dancing wisdom – not in the sense of being directed by a higher intelligence, but simply in the sense of finding a way to survive. Species survive to pass on their DNA by…