After yesterday’s post, another blogger commented: What was their own standing in their own community? We can’t know, I think. But from the texts alone, it seems evident that they had their own business and one of them, at least, owned a boat. Several of them had houses (one passage in the Gospel says something […]
Were the apostles poor and illiterate?
Were the twelve apostles poor and illiterate? I was leading a Bible Study tonight when one of the people involved made the statement that the Twelve Apostles were probably mostly poor and illiterate. After all, they were fishermen and salt of the earth, and many people did not know how to read or write back […]
JetBlue folk hero flight attendant — but why?
From the JetBlue blog site: It wouldn’t be fair for us to point out absurdities in other corners of the industry without acknowledging when it’s about us. Well, this week’s news certainly falls into that category. Perhaps you heard a little story about one of our flight attendants? While we can’t discuss the details of […]
Rulers are God’s ministers
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the […]
Jesus’ childhood
The Gospels are silent about Jesus’ childhood. I agree with those who say that the emphasis by the Gospel writers was on the Incarnation, the Ministry, and the Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ. With the exception of the Lukan story of a 12 year old Jesus at the Temple, no stories […]
Wacky Evangelical division of the world
The map above was sent to me in an e-mail. You know, the type of e-mail that is meant as pure humor. There really was no commentary attached, the map itself was the joke. At first, I just sighed and was going to hit delete. I considered it just some sophomoric humor, say about […]
Private property and the Roman Catholic Bishop’s immigration statements
Let’s look at another point raised by one of those who commented on immigration as regard the statements of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called Strangers No Longer: #35 says that “all the goods of the earth belong to all the people”. Wow. That eliminates all private property up to and including my […]
On various political opinions
The post on understanding the range of political expression brought several interesting replies. I call them interesting because they actually help to demonstrate the different, and very strong, opinions in the Christian camp. It will actually help in the discussion. I will not name names, however, one is an Orthodox monk, one is an Orthodox […]
Secular reaction to extreme, uhm, dispensationalism?
On May 18, Father Orthoduck published a publisher’s blurb on an anti-rapture secular comic. He commented that the secular comic is probably, in-part, a reaction to a certain strain of Christianity. Yesterday, a poster made the following comment: But the truth is that a virulent strain of Dispensationalism is so real and pervasive in American […]
Do secularists have a point about dispensationalists?
Some very interesting points were made by the people who commented on yesterday’s post. Let Father Orthoduck do some quotations. I don’t recognize the God they are talking about when they start the–if you want to go to heaven, you have to be just like me or else you will be caught in the tribulation […]
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