In my last post, I looked at the statement that Irenaeus made that Jesus was around 50 years old when He died. Today I want to look at this from a different angle. The Jesus Police suggested a good way to approximate the age of Jesus at death. There are certain markers that we know [...]
I am new to patristic studies and so my question may be answered in Patristics 101. I was reading in Irenaeus that Jesus was over 50 years old when He died. From my Protestant background I had learned that He was 33 years old. Here is the text that started me to think about this: [...]
Acts 10:44-48 Psalms 98 1 John 5:1-6 John 15:9-17 In the passage of 1 John, there are some difficult passages to be discussed. At the same time there are a lot of powerful and meaningful parts in the passage also. To begin with John tells us that when we believe upon Jesus we are born [...]
Acts 8:26-40 Psalm 22:25-31 1 John 4:7-21 John 15:1-8 Prime Mover – a "first cause" of existence, Wikipedia Prime mover is normally thought of as the original being from which all things exist. The term definitely applies to the Christian concept of God. “In the beginning, God created…” is a familiar phrase that speaks of [...]
Acts 4:5-12 Psalm 23 1 John 3:16-24 John 10:11-18 One of the great tear-jerkers in movie making is the person who dies for the sake of others. When we see this, we easily and quickly identify it as love being expressed. In our love starved world, nothing is more potent than acts of love. We [...]
Acts 3:12-19 Psalm 4 1 John 3:1-7 Luke 24:36b-48 The first part of the passage in 1 John seems pretty straight forward. God loves us enough to call us and make us His children. John then goes on to explain that we don’t know what that means entirely. Some day, we will know what it [...]
Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 51:1-12 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 Melchizedek, a priest of the Most High and king of Salem (later Jerusalem), blessed Abraham and Abraham tithed to him. He also brought out bread and wine. (Genesis 14:17-20) That is about all we know about Melchizedek from the Scriptural story. This was expanded upon in Psalm [...]
Numbers 21:4-9 Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 In some ways this is a follow up to last week: Christ is the action that saves. Paul here states that we are dead in our sin. There is nothing that we can do to gain life. Yes, we may be the living dead, zombies so [...]
Exodus 20:1-17 Psalm 19 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 The more I live, the more I see the foolishness of the cross. It seems that most, if not all, world systems are based around something that is done on our part. Whether it is keeping of certain rules or rituals or attaining to higher knowledge [...]
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Psalm 22:23-31 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Have you ever said something and wished you could take it back? For me, it is too many times to count. Like our words, our sin is like a cat out of the bag: once out, it is impossible to get it back in. If we [...]