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29 Dec 08

Universalism and the Bible

  • Some read many of these passages
    as
    Jesus predicting the suffering incurred during the destruction of
    Jerusalem.
    It was apparently a big issue in the Jewish community around the time
    of
    the writing of the book of Matthew whether this truly horrible and
    gruesome
    event was due to the Christians following a false Messiah (as some
    non-Christians
    claimed) or rather because the non-Christian Jews had failed to
    recognize
    the hour of their visitation (as some Christians held).
  • Consider Romans 16:25-26, which, as our
    translations
    have it, speaks of "the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but
    is now disclosed." Here, the Greek that gets translated as "for long
    ages"
    includes the very Greek work that is translated as "eternal" or
    "everlasting"
    elsewhere, including the "eternal" punishment passages. But in this
    Romans
    passage, Paul seems not to mean "eternal" by this word, for he
    immediately
    goes on to say the secret "is now disclosed", so of course it wasn't
    kept
    secret eternally. That's why our translations don't translate it as
    "eternally"
    here.
14 Oct 08

The Last Word and the Word After That | open source theology

Andrew Perriman (author of "The Coming of the Son of Man") critiques McLaren's "Last Word"

www.opensourcetheology.net/...656 - Preview

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