Yesterday I wrote about the “five solas” of the Reformation. These are things we rely on for specific aspects of our faith and were coined to describe specific challenges the Reformation identified. Because of this I think that it should be possible to identify other “solas”, so long as we don’t try to get those… Continue reading A sixth Sola?
Category: Theology
These things alone
I recently wrote about “sola Scriptura” or “faith alone”. The point is that Christians don’t only have Scripture on its own in isolation. They do have things like experience, their ability to reason things out and prophecy. The point is that Scripture alone and uniquely is our sole authority for knowing and serving God. So,… Continue reading These things alone
What about marriage and eternity?
When Jesus responds to the Sadducees conundrum and the Levirate marriage, he insists that in “the age to come”, there is no more giving and receiving in marriage (Luke 20:27-40). This may leave us with a few pastoral questions and implications. First of all, there was the immediate pastoral implication for people in that context. … Continue reading What about marriage and eternity?
What kind of story?
This video is part of my “Big Story” series. I hope you get to watch all of the series but I thought I’d share this specific one which helps us think about the type of story that the Bible tells. Is it comedy or is it tragedy?
Disciple the nations … is Christian Nationalism Biblical?
through them, that this is what he did before Christ came and that this did not change afterwards. This turns on one little but famous phrase. In Matthew 28:19, Jesus tells his disciples to, according to the translations we are all familiar with “Go and make disciples from all the nations.” However, a more wooden… Continue reading Disciple the nations … is Christian Nationalism Biblical?
What we forget
Today is Remembrance Day and our focus as a nation is on remembering those who have suffered and sacrificed in war time. Remembering and not forgetting are important Biblical ideas too. This video is part of my Big Story series.
Challenged
Jesus’ manner of arrival has put a cat amongst the pigeons. Ther authorities are increasingly determined to have him killed but also fear the crowds, so they seek ways to catch him out and either bring Roman justice or the wrath of the crowds against him. Read Luke 20:1-8 Jesus spends his time during the… Continue reading Challenged
“But the Bible was written in different languages to very different people”
I’ve been engaging with the question of Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) prompted by this post by Aaron Edwards, or more precisely the follow on discussion on his Facebook page. The big pushback to Aaron’s original post was the claim that there wasn’t such thing as “Sola Scriptura” because Scripture itself doesn’t make such a claim.… Continue reading “But the Bible was written in different languages to very different people”
How was Sola Scripture possible before the completion of the New Testament?
In the discussion about Sola Scripture which I mentioned in my previous post, it was suggested that it wasn’t possible to talk about Sola Scripture back in the first century when Paul was writing to Timothy for two reasons, first Scripture wasn’t complete and secondly people were illiterate. Let’s deal with them in reverse order. … Continue reading How was Sola Scripture possible before the completion of the New Testament?
Sola Scripture
It’s the 31st October and I’m sat waiting for a locksmith to come to get us out of a bit of a jam, literally . As I’m waiting, I pick up on a Facebook discussion about “Sola Scripture”. Someone is arguing that this idea is nowhere to be found in Scripture. Well, I’m doubly struck… Continue reading Sola Scripture
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