Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category

Pomotheo Joining TransformingTheology Network

Pomotheo is happy to be invited, or should we say we asked to be invited, to a new initiative in the realm of theology. The mission of the Transforming Theology network is to tighten the bonds between theology and transformative action in the church and the world.

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Rapture is a Scam – NT Wright on 1 Thess 4:16-17

You've heard it from us a few times already, Left Behind is perhaps one of the biggest theological cancers ever to propagate from fundamentalist Christianity. The fact dispensationalism (rapture theology) is affirmed as foundational doctrine for many evangelicals only makes the problem worse. Why? Because of basic exegesis and scholarship yields alternate interpretations than the [...]

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Why Mormons Aren’t Christians, Period.

Pomotheo rarely makes absolute statements but this one we're OK stating. Correct me if I'm wrong, but 10 years ago Mormon refused to be associated/called Christians. Now they realise they can get more money in the bank if they push their religion as a 'Christian alternative'.
This debate between prominent Christian apologist and LDS author [...]

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Left Behind Junk – Sound Exegesis Finally Seeping Through

Death to Left Behind garbage.
It's GREAT! to see theologians finally getting their voices heard. Albeit, this particular woman is a Lutheran, evangelicals should take notice. Hopefully arrogant conservatives won't write these theologians off as 'liberal', or in this case 'just a woman'.
Quite frankly, dispensationalist theology, of which 'rapture theology' and the entire 'Left Behind' series [...]

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Predestination and Free Will

This might be interesting and I am open to discussion. Somehow I think I've made sense of the two as they both exist.... Yet it seems unlikely that I truely have comprehended this mystery. Scripture speaks of both God knowing all things past-present-future yet He also holds us accountable for our choices [...]

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