Sometime it’s easy to get lost in the details. We live in a really mess world right now during a really messy time. We are seeing the ‘future’ unfold before us until it is become our present. Headlines bump up against each other until there are crisis on many fronts; foreign and domestic; material and […]
FINDING MEANING IN MADNESS
We know that we are living on the edge of Christ’s return; that He holds us responsible to know the season of His coming and that we are on the eve of a day of Judgment when all our world will change. The myriad crisis, engulfing chaos and unalloyed violence and hate we see are […]
GIMME DAT ‘ONE WORLD RELIGION’
We have traced how during its early centuries, the faith handed down by Christ and his disciples compromised and gave way to a new hybrid religion. Pagan ceremonies were adapted to accommodate the throngs of former pagans that were now entering the Church.[i] At the dawn of the 4th century Christianity was factionalized as false […]
GIMME DAT ‘ONE WORLD RELIGION’
Last time out we chronicled how following the two destructions of Jerusalem in the years AD 70 and 135 the Jewish character and influence in the Church declined severely. The Church was open to change….and change it did. PART VII – THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FAITH A little history is necessary to set the framework. […]
FINDING MEANING IN MADNESS
Jesus held the Jews of His generation responsible because they willfully ignored the signs of the times they lived in. He told them that they would face judgment “, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” (Luke 19:44) That judgment came in AD 70 with the destruction of Jerusalem. So too we […]