The Begining of the World – Christian Eschat...
January 23rd, 2010 | Christian Eschatology | 1 Comment
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The Beginning of the World - Christian Eschatology: We're often asked, what is left for us if Christ has come? Where is our hope? Is this all we get? How much more ungrateful, simplistic and narrow a viewpoint can this be? That's not to say the questions are not honest, but they do lack just bit of depth in thought.
What do we have now that Christ has come? How about everything, including the world? Is that enough? "Therefore, let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or ...
Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline, Is Christianity ...
April 24th, 2009 | Amillennialism | No Comment
Karl Barth, theologian and scholar
fittingly wrote a latter chapter of
Dogmatics in Outline on the
“Coming of Jesus Christ the Judge.”
Karl Barth’s beliefs of Christ’s coming
as judge are futuristic. He however,
recognized the already but not yet
of eschatology.
Problems addressed in the book are the Christians view of time, which
he styles as “real time” versus God’s time.
Dogmatics in Outline Defined Pre-Parousia Time
In Karl Barth’s theology summary of present time, he saw Christ sitting at the right hand of God. This for him represented the present. As such, the event occurred in real time. From this he concluded and rightly so that eternity had broken into ...
If Christ Returned in 70 AD, What Happened to Sata...
March 1st, 2009 | Eschatology | 7 Comments
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We’re often asked, if Christ has returned in
70 AD?, What happened to Satan This is a
great question.
Many want to know the whereabouts of the
Diabolos, the wicked one.
If there are two questions that plague the
minds of Christians they are:
“Where did Satan come from, where is he now,
and or where did he go? These are great
Bible questions.
Who wouldn’t want to know where their chief enemy was? No surprise visits
right?
The answer to the first question is rather simple. Satan came from God. What? Yes, that’s true. Satan came from God who is the Creator of all things. At least, that’s my take ...