On the post I referenced earlier, the conversation quickly fell into an typical Protestant/non-Protestant debate. One of the comments said, in part: I am happy enough where I am because I see behind the green curtain. The ties to RC have taught me there are a lot of wonderful catholic believers, who in many ways live […]
On those who are happy to be Protestant
On a post on another blog, the writer posted a whole note on why he is happy to remain a Protestant. He starts out by saying: Because I’ve been wrestling with Protestant/Catholic issues through-out this past year, I receive a lot of email from those who have moved outside of their lifelong evangelicalism and somewhere […]
Jewish liturgical year, last thoughts
Sometimes, when we discuss theology, we forget to look at the human historical elements of a situation. The funny thing is that centuries later, we will talk about that situation divorced from the humanity of what happened and then wonder why we cannot understand how on earth the situation could have wound up the way […]
Typology or Allegory and the Jewish Liturgical Year, part 04
What important fact has changed our view of history so that it led to a different conception of the Liturgical Year? I am sure I gave it away by that wording. That event is the Incarnation of Jesus Christ Our Lord, and his subsequent Death and Resurrection. History received a violent shock to itself. All […]
Typology or Allegory and the Jewish Liturgical Year, part 03
This will be a very short posting because today is Sunday. When we look at the Jewish Liturgical Year, at the Gospels, and at the Early Church Fathers, the Jewish Liturgical Year is seen as a foreshadowing of what Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself would do. And, thus, it was considered unnecessary to celebrate feasts of […]
Typology or Allegory and the Jewish Liturgical Year, part 02
In the previous discussion I mentioned how allegory is regularly used within all branches of Christendom. Some use it more than others. For those who do not wish to admit that they use allegory, they rename it typology. As I commented on my previous post, allegory has some rather good antecedents, since it was Jesus […]
Typology or Allegory and the Jewish Liturgical Year, part 01
OK, we have been talking about the fulfillment of the Jewish liturgical year and why it is not observed, which took us into the subject of typology/allegory. So what is typology/allegory? Well, first, there is a great debate as to whether there is any difference between typology and allegory. At best, it is a difference […]
To Sabbatarian or not to Sabbatarian, actually there is no question
Why did Peter and John (and presumably every Apostolic-generation believer) still keep the Sabbath if our Lord meant for the first day of the week to become the new Sabbath? Did the Apostles get it wrong? . . . Sunday only became the new day of rest when the successive generations developed amnesia about the […]
Synagogue and developing tradition
Scott pointed out that the Early Church followed the synagogue model of worship and quickly developed a Temple/Synagogue pattern to their worship. This actually should not be in the least surprising, since Our Lord Jesus Christ is Jewish. When on earth, he worshiped as a Jewish believer, attending both Synagogue (beyt knesset) and Temple. Sacrifices […]
So, what happened to the Jewish liturgical year?
But don’t you think they would wonder what happened to the order of their Religious Year? Where are the Feasts? Oh, sure, the Church has feasts. But they are not just new. They are not just improved. They are complete replacements. As though the church went from DOS to Mac in one generation (if you […]
