Posts Tagged "christianity"

Must Christians Obey Old Testament Law?

Posted by on Nov 19, 2008 in Missionary, Scholar | 1 comment

Here’s a small essay writ­ten in response to a ques­tion in my sem­i­nary class on the Old Testament. Christianity stands in direct con­nec­tion with the covenants between God and human­ity. Accordingly, Christians must study the his­tory of God’s rela­tion­ship with man and the prin­ci­ples He has communicated. The Abrahamic Covenant became an uncon­di­tional promise of God’s ulti­mate ful­fill­ment of His promises to Abraham and his descen­dents. The Mosaic Law was a com­ple­ment to the Abrahamic Covenant in that while the Abrahamic Covenant ensured a...

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Irony of Thorns

Posted by on Nov 13, 2004 in Missionary, Observer | 0 comments

I have peri­odic moments in which I am astounded by my ide­o­log­i­cal sep­a­ra­tion from the rest of the world, even within my sub­groups of friendship. Either I am indi­rectly blasted by hate­ful speech towards Christianity or I am mis­un­der­stood as a ques­tion­able troublemaker. At least on one side it’s sim­ple mis­un­der­stand­ing — I’m not crit­i­cized or lam­basted, just looked at a lit­tle oddly. On the other side, the side that holds most of my dear­est friends, it’s this indi­rect dis­gust. Blasting my beliefs, blast­ing my stan­dards and...

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Surrenduring

Posted by on Oct 24, 2004 in Observer | 0 comments

I have a very mixed audi­ence of friends, here, and so I am try­ing to do away with the jar­gon that I’m famil­iar with and explain this in more sim­plis­tic terms. I’ve decided that it’s time for me to join a church. For as long as I can remem­ber, I have had an absolute knowl­edge in the pres­ence of God. I was much closer to God when I was lit­tle, and my sen­si­tiv­ity to the super­nat­ural was more vivid — I could see and hear those extra shades of life around me. I knew what was there. I accepted that knowl­edge when I was a child. I accepted the inner peace and...

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