History belongs to God. He is the great author. To look at periods of time in history and assume that God is not acting is to think like a pagan.
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Book Review: Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion
A Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion fell short of it’s potential. The text boxes contained phenomenal information, the story was creative, and every detail researched – but in the end all was underwhelming.
Israel, America and the Nations
Modern day Israel can only be in covenant with God through the true Israel Jesus. Psalm 2 teaches us that the nations of the world, including Israel, have only two options before them: make peace with Jesus or perish under His crushing rod.
Covenant Through New Eyes: Part 4 – The World of Noah
The inspired authors of scripture saw history unfolding in such a way that the world is constantly being destroyed and remade. With each new world comes new ways that man is to relate to God and act in the world. This is played out over and over again in the pages of the Old Testament.
Ideological “Sleights-of-Hand”
Of all the ideological "sleight-of-hands" the modern thought police have pulled off, perhaps the greatest of them is convincing the modern mind that it was religion & not
Historical Problems & the Problem with History
It's important to understand that the scriptures (specifically the New Testament in this sense) were written in space & time to a certain people in space and time. None of this means that what was written then is no longer applicable to the modern reader, rather, Wright contests that in order to obtain a modern application from the text would depend on obtaining the ancient application. Our approach should not be to divorce the scriptures from the place and time they were written in order to acquire their "higher meaning." Instead we should look to understand exactly what scripture was addressing so that we may see how it does (and does not) apply to us today.