Category: Bible
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The Role of Natives and Migrants
Migration is a fairly tricky subject, and arguably uniquely so in our day and age. There have certainly been migration patterns, even involving thousands of people, but economic migration and border-length border control have rarely been so prevalent. With both sides of the aisle slapping the Christian faith on their political perspective, or, rather, slapping…
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“Of the People…” Not Found in the General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible
This is a short one, but I thought I’d chime in on something. While browsing around for some information about the General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible, I stumbled upon this blog post from the Volokh Conspiracy. Basically, there’s a myth going around that the General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible contains the sentence, “The…
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Milk: What Does It Mean?
Of the few sermons I remember from my youth group, one that stood out to me centered around the latter half of Hebrews 5. The guest speaker posited that the church must focus on and return to, almost exclusively, simple aspects of the faith. I wish to make a counterargument, using the very same above…
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Salvation for the Wealthy
We often make out the rich as the typical villains of not just the modern world but also the Christian precursor world, as noted in many Christian interpretations. The primary verse most Christians cite when discussing the rich is Matthew 19:24 (or its reiterations in Mark and Luke): “’And again I say to you, it…
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Injustice, in Genesis, in Job, in Jesus
From what we know of King Abimelech in Genesis 20, he was a righteous man. He was averse to sin and atoned when he did. He earned his happy ending. When the sister of a travelling herdsman passed by his kingdom, then, he rejoiced. She was beautiful, and he could provide her with stability and…
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Love Recklessly
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not…
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Christian Marriage: An Analysis of Ephesians 5:22
Marital roles are important, but not as much as the marriage itself, the sacred union of two entirely separate entities into one body.
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Understanding Galatians 4:7
In Galatians 4, Paul teaches us about maturing our relationship with God. In verse 7, he writes, “you are no longer a slave but a child.” For some time, this verse baffled me. I had understood that, if we give ourselves completely to God, then we are His slave, and He our master. Paul himself…
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Four Reasons to be a Theology Major
Recently I have been working on putting together a portfolio all theology majors need to arrange in order to graduate from Loyola University Chicago. Part of the process is to look through the best of my papers and post a few of them demonstrating I have attained the different knowledge areas. In addition, I had…