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Sirach
As a Protestant, I didn’t grow up reading Sirach. I still do not believe it should be part of the ‘canon’ in the sense of biblically inspired, however I think we lack something for leaving it out of our inherited books. I appreciate those copies of Scripture that include (some of) the additional works that the early father’s viewed as “helpful” to the faith, including Sirach.
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Friendship with Those Who Disagree with You
Part of living life, and living the Christian life, is figuring out how to be friends with people who differ from you, who believe you are in the wrong, and that you are living inconsistent with some kind of law (either a deities’ law or a man-made standard for ethics).
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The Fathers on The End Times
I’m slowly compiling research, and hopefully putting a book together! One element that I’ve been researching is what the pre-Nicene fathers specifically state about the end times. I’ve found some really interesting trends, and, to my knowledge, have put together some things that no one else has compiled. If someone else has already done a comparison like this, then I’d love to see it because it’s a lot quicker to build on other people’s work!
Anyway, here’s the summary below of what I’ve found. If anyone wants the more thorough overview, and then also the really, really in-depth comparison, just comment and I’ll do a separate post.
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The Fathers on the Fall of Angels
I’ve been reviewing the early Church Fathers to compile an overview of the different views on eschatology, but while reading I came across quotes on the fall of angels, as well as the editorial note.
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Lo! How a rose e’er blooming?
I decided to take the original text of the well-known hymn, and translate it without trying to keep the rhyme scheme. Why? Just because!
Here it is below:
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God is Incomprehensible
Defining Incomprehensibility
Incomprehensibility is that theological concept that, negatively, means what cannot be known of God, and, positively, means that only particulars can be known of God without fully circumscribing the entirety of Him.
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Definitions in Philosophy and Theology
I started this post just reviewing patristic quotes of immutability, but as I’ve thought through the idea, I think that I need to review definitions of some basic words used in theology and philosophy, and really think through some implications. I’ve decided this post should be split into multiple posts. I should probably also re-write a lot of this and try to publish it somewhere, and actually make some income off of my thoughts [which, if you do think this deserves some level of monetary support, please do donate!!]. Regardless–
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God is Inscrutable
I’ve not written any personal reflections in quite a while. For one reason, it is because I went through a brutal divorce. For another, it is because I’ve been pondering a lot, and I hate to release anything that isn’t based in well-researched writing. But, now I’ve decided that I should just write about what I’m thinking through for my own benefit, and see if anyone has interesting or fruitful comments to have a discussion about this.
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Atonement Thoughts
How did Christ atone for His People?Protestant Theologians debate whether it was in an Equivalent or Exact Sense:Equivalent:“Not indefinite as to the duration, still…equivalent as to the value on account of the Person suffering.” -TurretinExact:“Christ “made satisfaction by undergoing the same punishment…they themselves were bound to undergo…essentially the same in weight and pressure, though not in all accident of duration and the like.” -Owen, quoted in “He Died for Me” p. 114.Unsure:“He was to suffer what we were to suffer, if not the exact, every way the same, yet the equivalent, that which was sufficient to Christ’s ends” -Thomas Manton, quoted in “He Died for Me” p. 118.
