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Emerging Peter: When God Visits
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xscot mcknight
Peter tells his powerless resident aliens and temporary residents to avoid fleshy lusty pursuits of power to get God’s will accomplished, and he also tells them to be good citizens. And he tells them that the day God visits will sort this all out. But what does it mean to speak of the “day of…
Atonement: An Emerging Issue 2
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xscot mcknight
Is the doctrine of penal substitution “divine child abuse”? If you haven’t seen this expression before, keep your eyes open because more and more are using it as a rhetorical weapon against the traditional (Reformed) view of atonement.
TNIV and the Apocrypha
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xscot mcknight
The post recently about the apocryphal books of the Old Testament, along with the poll, took me a bit by surprise. What I’m wondering is if you would purchase and read a TNIV (or NIV) that decided to include the Apocrypha? Or would you find that over the line? (I’m using the NIV and TNIV…
Emerging Peter: Benefactors of the Community
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xscot mcknight
Peter mixes the powerlessness of his readers, who were resident aliens and temporary residents — a social descriptor, with the challenge of bringing God’s redemptive work in Christ to Asia Minor and he begins by exhorting them to do God’s work in God’s way. And now he tells the same folks to be benefactors of…
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