Tag: Jesus
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Prepare Their Minds for Action
“Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 1:13 Imagine you are 16, and your very first job interview is for the position of Lifeguard at the local pool. You are incredibly excited to learn a…
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Comparing Richard Rohr’s Teaching to Biblical Christianity (Complete List)
Meridith Black: gal220black@gmail.com (Sources included at the bottom) 40-page “Essentials” Version Complete Google Doc This 86-page, “side-by-side” chart was compiled in June of 2024 with the genuine hope and prayer that it might be a helpful resource for anyone wanting to know how Friar Richard Rohr’s theology (study of God) and anthropology (study of humanity &…
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Jesus is God (Second Person of the Trinity)
The “HANDS” acronym was created by Drs Robert M. Bowman & Ed Komoszewski, can be found in their books 1.) The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense and 2.) Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ. The Scriptures referenced in the chart below are examples from a larger…
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Why Christianity?
Why should anyone of a quest for truth consider Christianity, first and foremost? Per Dr. Craig Hazen, Director of Christian Apologetics at Biola, here are the 4 reasons why Christianity is the worldview you should pursue first: 1) Christianity is testable, 2) Salvation is a free gift, 3) Christianity has a terrific worldview fit, and…
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An Educational Treasure
Do you or a loved-one have earnest questions concerning the reliability of the Bible? If so, please do not suppress these queries, nor place them on the “back burner.” Asking questions is incredibly important! Pursuing truth, in combination with investigating the truth claims we hear/read daily online, is something we should prioritize — all of…
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In Richard Rohr’s Own Words
Compiled by Meridith BlackContact: gal220black@gmail.comGoogle Document (Landscape)Google Document (Portrait)Full 86-page Research Document “Jesus was objectively Christ from his birth in Bethlehem, his conception in Nazareth, just like you and I are objectively Christ.”🚩 –Richard Rohr Center for Action and Contemplation. 2019. Jesus, Incarnation, and The Christ Resurrection. cac.org. https://cac.org/podcasts/1-jesus-incarnation-and-the-christ-resurrection/. This side-by-side chart was compiled with…
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Early Christian and Non-Christian Attestations about Jesus
“Even if you silenced the voices of the New Testament authors, you would still have a robust description of Jesus and his followers from ancient, hostile non-Christian voices in the fallout…There are more non-Christian voices in this extrabiblical collection (ninety-two historical figures) than Christian ones, and regardless of their social stature, ethnicity, motivation, or region,…
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Is Rohr Correct about Propitiation?
Per his own words, Richard Rohr promotes the view that penal subustitutionary atonement is merely a “theory.” Rohr claims that “the early church had never heard” of penal substitutionary atonement. [1] Is Rohr accurate when he advocates that the early church did not view Jesus’s crucifixion as atonement for sin? Is it merely a theory…
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Why Hell?
Friends, we wouldn’t go to Hell because we don’t choose Jesus. We go to Hell because we are sinners. Sin separates us from a Holy God. And since God is good (Mk 12), God is perfectly just. We would deserve Hell. In The Story of Reality by Greg Koukl, Koukl makes this point by illustrating…
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The Gospel According to Mark: Jesus is God
“Why does this man speak like that? He (Jesus) is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Mark 2:7📕 Mark is thought by numerous scholars to be the earliest of the four gospel accounts recorded with “internal and external data pointing to Rome as the place of composition around the mid-to-late 50’s.”(1) With Jesus’s…
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The Trinity: A Succinct Summary
What or who is the #Trinity? Dr. James White, author of “The Forgotten Trinity as well as director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, explains that “The doctrine of the Trinity is simply that there is one eternal being of God – indivisible, infinite. This one being of God is shared by three co-equal, co-eternal persons,…
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Is the Enneagram Christian? Fast Facts to Consider and Share!
Honest question: If restaurants & grocery stores recall food for the possibility of food poisoning, why don’t Christian publishers humbly recall books they’ve printed which promote poisonous teaching contrary to historic, biblical Christianity? 📙For example, why would two respected Christian publishing companies (Zondervan and IVP) choose to print literature promoting verifiably non-Christian programming? Given that…
Hold Fast Apologetics 