The Narrow Path Ministries

I think the sooner a young Christian is exposed to a good variety of theological perspectives the better- as long as he or she experiences those viewpoints in an environment that isn't caustic. The longer a Christian waits to understand that there is freedom of diversity in the universal Church of G...

Agreed, Thomas. I use the 457/458 date as the best example when talking with skeptics because it's the easiest to understand/ most straightforward. It's actually kinda cool though that the calucations can work a couple of ways. And, like you said, no matter the details, they point very specifically ...

Rae, Thanks again for the article. I finally had a chance to read it and I really appreciated it. It will be good fuel for further study. I'm almost totally in agreement with it from where I stand, there are just a few small details I need to investigate a bit more. Here's one quote that really stoo...

"though he slay me, yet will i trust him." Very much agreed with you on that verse, TK. There is a midway stance on the historicity of Job which I think is the most probable... Some think that there was an original core story or oral tradition about Job (very short, like just three or four narrative...

Thanks! My name is actually Josh. I was just thanking Christopher for starting the thread.

I'm in the odd place (as an avid Church historian) of seriously appreciating the contributions of various denominations and historical threads of the Church but having no desire to align myself with a particular denomination. I'm the pastor of a small church and based on my experience and my underst...

Steve wrote: Cult-like shepherding occurs when leaders mistake their task for that of micro-managing the sheep, and/or driving the sheep into conformity with the leadership's "vision" (which is a spiritual-sounding euphemism for "agenda"). Hey Steve, I'm a pastor of a very small Church in the Portla...

Hey, I'm new around here, so I'm not really sure if there is a live representative of the Universalism stance, but I note that there really hasn't been much of a response to the thrust of Homer's point- namely, that these passages constitute one of the obvious difficulties with Universalism. I'm cur...

Thomas, I'm with you. I don't see the Romans as the the primary bringers of abomination, but the Jewish rebels themselves. Especially in Josephus, this is a strong impression. Josephus describes one John of Gischala, a rebel who commandeered the temple mount, insisting on continuing the Jewish rebel...

It seems that it might be more productive to ask which "end" Matthew has in mind here than to investigate what he means by "all the world". If the "end" is the end of the Temple and Temple cult, then we can deduce hyperbole. If the "end" is the end of the world (or at least a future Tribulation), th...