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If God Loves Judgment, Shouldn’t We Love It Too?
Read more: If God Loves Judgment, Shouldn’t We Love It Too?Photo Credits: “Michelangelo – The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel, The Vatican” by Randy OHC is licensed under CC BY 2.0. This short article examines two verses from the Psalms and traces their English translations over the centuries. The point is not to quibble with the various translations. All the renderings of these passages quoted in this article are…
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A Brief Conversation Among Disembodied Spirits Residing in the Intermediate State
Read more: A Brief Conversation Among Disembodied Spirits Residing in the Intermediate StatePhoto credits: “Wait Here: Entrance to the waiting room at the municipal airport, in Washington, D.C. 1941” by polkbritton is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. These four spirits shed their earthly names when they shed their earthly bodies. They are awaiting their new names that Christ will give them “at the end of the age.” They are…
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A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final Judgment
Read more: A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final JudgmentProfessor Wright has given us all a precious gift by “reminding” us and, more importantly, by explaining to us in persuasive detail that Jesus on Easter did not pass into some vague spiritual netherworld, but rather rose bodily from the dead. The resurrection, Dr. Wright correctly proclaims, represents the defeat of death and the inauguration…