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Atonement Wars on Good Friday?
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xscot mcknight
Mark Dever, a Baptist pastor in Washington, DC, is the author of the featured article in Christianity Today and it appropriately deals with the atonement. But, instead of being a positive description of what the death (and resurrection) is, Dever decided to defend penal substitution. And, instead of defending it by exegesis of specific passages,…
Immigration: What about Onesimus?
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xscot mcknight
On the immigration issue, there is a bit a stalemate on this blog, though there has been good discussion, and I thank each of you for your comments. But, I’d like us to consider it all from a different direction: What about Paul and Onesimus?
Emerging Peter: Emerging Good-Byes
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xscot mcknight
I’ve taken a stand in my life at over-interpreting the greetings and endings of NT letters. Just because “grace” or “peace” or “mercy” show up doesn’t mean we need to flop a big fat concorance on our desk and chase down every possible nuance of a term. I learned this from Eugene Nida long ago:…
The Gospel of Judas 5
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xscot mcknight
Here is what Irenaeus says about The Gospel of Judas in his Against Heresies, 1.31.1:
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