The first linking of the conservative view of the Christian apocalypse with the “ingathering” of Jews in Palestine goes back to at least the 16th century (Wagner 2002: 51; Epstein 1984: 7-8), prefiguring Herzl’s Jewish political Zionism by 300 years. Now, both mainstream Zionism and Christian Zionism developed largely independently, but there have been significant […]
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DISPENSATIONAL CHRISTIAN ZIONISM: A STRANGE BUT ACCEPTABLE ABERRATION OR A DEVIANT HERESY? PHILIP A. F. CHURCH
Defining Christian Zionism pdf
What are your favorite Bible contradictions? PART TWO
These can be two sets of verses that are contradictory, or the clash can be the Bible vs. reality. And these aren’t just trivial contradictions where “It’s a typo—big deal” would be an answer. These seem to strike at foundational Christian claims. Let’s continue (part 1 is here). 6. Faith saves (or do works save?) […]
You’ve probably seen lists of Bible contradictions. Here are my favorites.
Play along at home and see which of these are your list, too. My focus here is just on contradictions in the Bible. These are mostly clashes between two sets of verses in the Bible, but some are the Bible clashing with reality. (I’ve written about the Bible clashing with science here.) There are lots […]
It is a central dogma of all fundamental Christians that the Bible is without error – BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS
It is a central dogma of all fundamental Christians that the Bible is without error. They teach this conclusion by “reasoning” that god cannot be the author of false meaning and he cannot lie. Is this true? If written by a perfect being, then it must not contradict itself, as a collection of books written […]
In effect, Zionism stood at the cradle of the resettlement of Jews to England.
Christian Zionism in the United Kingdom is a Christian ideology that sees the return of the Jews to Israel as a fulfilment of scriptural prophecy. Supporters of Christian Zionism believe that the existence of the Jewish State can and should be supported on theological grounds [2] Christian Zionism preceded Zionism amongst both secular and rabbinic […]
Was there an Adam? The Testimony of the Ancient Chinese
Was there an Adam? The Testimony of the Ancient Chinese A number of the posts I have written have largely rested on the assumption that an ‘Adam’ existed. The posts, ‘The Final Countdown: Embedded in the Beginning’, ‘The Signature of the Virgin Birth’, ‘Corrupted (Part 1) … like Orcs of Middle-Earth’, ‘Corrupted (Part 2) … […]
Was there an Adam? The Testimony of the Ancient Chinese
A number of the posts I have written have largely rested on the assumption that an ‘Adam’ existed. The posts, ‘The Final Countdown: Embedded in the Beginning’, ‘The Signature of the Virgin Birth’, ‘Corrupted (Part 1) … like Orcs of Middle-Earth’, ‘Corrupted (Part 2) … missing our Target’, ‘Why Would God allow suffering and Death?’ […]
The Bible as (Not!) History – by Bennett Muraskin
PEOPLE OFTEN CLAIM that the history of the Jews dates back 4,000 years. Actually, it is closer to 3,000 years, but that’s still a long time, in human terms. Marx Red SeaCertainly, few non-fundamentalists take the Adam and Eve or Noah stories literally, but many people do insist, on no firmer historical basis, that Abraham, […]