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Comment on What Does it Mean to be Forsaken by God? by lorraineyeung

lorraineyeung — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:34:15 +0000

Hey,
I think you meant Luke 16 (not 17) at the beginning of your blog.

Comment on Tim Tebow’s Prayer Life – Not Very 2K by Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:26:07 +0000

You said, “I simply find it hard to claim Christ, and yet be a sex model for advertisements [of?] lust.”

I don’t think being an underwear model necessitates being a sex model. I know I don’t know you at all…and maybe if you read my blog you would think I was a little off anyway. But as a man who resists temptation by the Gospel of Christ taking root in my life by faith, I think what you said first assumes way too much about Tebow’s intention and, second, I think the closer analogy would be my son or father (of which, I only have a dad since I’m not married). I would be perfectly fine with my father being an underwear model if he picked up a few muscles along the way, sure.

Comment on Tim Tebow’s Prayer Life – Not Very 2K by Michael Dewalt

Michael Dewalt — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:15:04 +0000

You say “Second, I’m not sure I follow with what the problem of being an underwear model is…” So your fine with your mom, wife, or daughter as a underwear model? I never said one cannot be a Xian or not, I simply find it hard to claim Christ, and yet be a sex model for advertisements lust.

Comment on Tim Tebow’s Prayer Life – Not Very 2K by Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:59:59 +0000

A couple of things: first, Jesus’ talking about praying in private doesn’t preclude praying in public. One way to follow Matthew 5:16 is to pray publicly, being aware that one’s life is now being scrutinized. The quote, “There can be no intimacy without privacy” seems to assume that the only time he prays is in public, which I daresay is quite an assumption.

Do you hold hands with or kiss your wife in public? Does doing so mean that you don’t do that behind closed doors? Of course not.

Second, I’m not sure I follow with what the problem of being an underwear model is. It’s not as if he were opting to be a porn star. The statement itself seems to indicate you think a person cannot be a Christian in that vocation or that it somehow damages the cause of Christ.

Comment on St.Basil, Ecology, and Fellowship: Part 1 by Michael Dewalt

Michael Dewalt — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:33:03 +0000

Mr. Johnson,
Thanks for the comments. A friend of mine wrote the post for discussion, just as you have done. Hopefully Peter will comment back with you about your concerns.

Comment on The Israel of God by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:59:09 +0000

I Peter 1:1, addressed the Galatians using the word Diaspora; “Israelite resident in Gentile countries.”

This makes it clear that the Galatians were Israelites in exile, not Gentiles.

He also used the words “chosen generation – royal priesthood – holy nation – peculiar people” all OT references to national Israel (2:9)

In 2:10 Peter quotes Hosea 1 verbatim telling the Galatians they fulfilled the prophecies when they came to Christ. We now know that Peter was addressing expatriated Israelites from the ten-tribe northern kingdom. Hosea was not addressing these prophecies to Judah, they were exempt. (Hos.1:7)Nor was Hosea addressing Gentiles.

Paul, in Galatians 4:9, wrote; “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

“Again” anew, over again. (Strong’s 509) The Galatians were returning to the Law of Moses “over again.”

And, Paul addressed them as “the Israel of God” in Gal. 6:16 because they were from the divorced/exiled northern kingdom.

Comment on St.Basil, Ecology, and Fellowship: Part 1 by Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:33:17 +0000

Michael, I appreciate the good spirit and intent of your blog about animals and the creation viewed in a positive theological and ethical light. However, at the risk of being a mild wet blanket, I have to disappoint you somewhat concerning the prayer being sourced in St Basil of Caesarea. This “prayer” is widely cited on the net and in books and periodicals and invariably most say that it comes from St Basil’s Liturgy and that the Russian Orthodox Church uses this Liturgy including the prayer. The fact of the matter is that no such prayer exists in the Greek, Russian or Coptic versions of the Liturgy, nor does the prayer come from any of the extant commentaries, sermons or letters by St Basil. The prayer is something of a bibliographical “ghost” because nobody bothers to supply an original source or English translation from a scholarly source. Indeed a few scholars reproduce this (e.g. Laura Yordy) and some rely on the quote gained from Jon Wynne-Tyson’s book The Extended Circle (page 9) but Wynne-Tyson gives no source; others take it from Charles Niven’s 1967 book History of the Humane Movement. The prayer is a conflation of two different sources, one a prayer devised during WW1 about horses, and much of the text that is attributed to St Basil actually resembles a prayer that the liberal Protestant Walter Rauschenbusch composed in his 1910 book Prayers of the Social Awakening, page 47.

Comment on Can a “non-christian” Do Good Things? by bartosik

bartosik — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:48:24 +0000

thanks man- i was challenged by acts 10 to look at how this can be true of goodness when we examine the life of cornelius….how would you respond?

Comment on What does it mean practically to keep the Sabbath holy? by von

von — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:33:39 +0000

Wayne, how has the whole law been fulfilled? By your definition it just goes away and doesn’t need to be obeyed anymore, right? What about the other 9 commandments besides keeping the sabbath? are we able to kill, steal and have other gods now that Jesus fulfilled the law? the law is all 613 commandments in the Torah. are we able to have sexual relations with animals now? what about matthew 5:17-19 where Jesus says heaven and earth will pass away before the smallest commandment does. well earth is still hear, so isn’t the law too? your definition of fulfillment is incorrect. in Hebrew it means ‘to make understood’, not to complete or end as you’re thinking. Jesus is the Word, the Word is Scripture, Scripture contains the Law, why would Jesus end HImself?