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An Useful Bible

Posted by Dyfed on Friday, January 27, 2012 In : Bible 



Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been looking at 2 Timothy 3:16 and suggesting that though some will pluck it out of context and use it to ‘prove’ that the Bible is the inerrant word of God in all its detail this verse in fact can be used to do no such thing. Last week I looked at the word God-breathed and the previous week I considered which Scriptures it was referring to. Today it would be good to ask what the verse has to say about the purpose of Scripture.

Useful not sufficient

The ...

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Rejecting pluralism for empire

Posted by Dyfed on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 In : Post-Christendom 



How could the church have been so infected by imperial power to render it so ineffective? This is the question that Roger Mitchell attempts to answer in the remainder of the first two parts of his book. He introduces key characters and periods in which the imperial principle was introduced and consolidated. The first of which is Eusebius of Caesarea.

Father of church history

Eusebius has the distinction of being referred to as ‘the father of church history’ and his most famous of books, The...

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An Ongoing Quest

Posted by Dyfed on Monday, January 23, 2012 In : Mondays with McLaren 



Brian McLaren’s tenth and final question in his book A New Kind of Christianity asks ‘how we can translate our quest into action?’ He acknowledges that many will reject the quest but asks that we take Gamaliel’s view into consideration – if the quest is of God then it will flourish, if not then it will wither and die (Acts 5:36ff). Much of this chapter contains practical advice for people who share some of the same questions – especially people who find themselves in the midst of ...

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God-breathed Bible

Posted by Dyfed on Friday, January 20, 2012 In : Bible 



When Paul said that ‘all scripture is inspired’ (2 Timothy 3:16, NASV) what did he mean? Last week I looked at the issue of which biblical books he could be referring to and concluded that it was the books of the Old Testament alone he had in mind. In this post I want to look at the word ‘inspired’.

God-breathed

The Greek word here is ‘theopneustos’ – literally ‘God-breathed’. (Interestingly the NIV uses this translation rather than ‘inspired’.) Nowhere else in the NT does...

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Imperial God

Posted by Dyfed on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 In : Post-Christendom 



How is creation to be restored and how will peace – in all its manifestations and consequences – be effected within it and between it and God? Roger Mitchell understands the gospel way of doing this as a ‘kenotic gift’, a giving away by God of himself and his power for the good of creation. But it is the opposite of this that he sees in the church as it was subsumed by the ‘imperial sovereignty’ of the Roman Empire in the fourth century.

Supreme power

He defines sovereignty as the e...

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Some thoughts following my visit to Occupy London.

October 27th 2011

Ok so there’s plenty to disagree with but this is such a good song.

October 12th 2011
There are so many draining things we can focus on during the day: how we appear to others, how much others do or don’t respect us, how we can get people to do what we want. But once we become aware of the negative impact of these areas of focus, we can get clear on - even excited about - who we really want to be … We can shift our focus toward qualities like mercy, gentleness, courage, and the many others that bring true joy in our lives and in the lives of others.

Sasha Silverman and Malcom Smith

via MinEmergent

October 5th 2011
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