From A Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations, by I.D.E. Thomas
Will they return home?
The Jews shall be gathered from all parts of the earth where they now are scattered, and brought home into their homeland. (John Owen)
Will they turn to Christ?
The Jews are not yet come in under Christ’s banner; but God, that hath persuaded Japheth to come into the tents of Shem, will persuade Shem to come into the tents of Japheth.…
In recent decades, annihilationalism (the doctrine that the finally impenitent cease to exist, rather than that they suffer eternal conscious torment) has continued to gain ground in evangelical circles.
Over the past century, those committed to (or, at least, sympathetic towards) this doctrine include: Harold E. Guillebaud, Basil Atkinson, J. Stafford Wright, Norman Anderson, John Stott, John Wenham, Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, E. Earle Ellis, John Stott, F.F. Bruce, Michael Green, I. Howard Marshall, Stephen Travis, Edward Fudge, R.…
The redoubtable Cambridge scholar Basil Atkinson (1895-1971) may be said to have kick-started the revival of interest in annihilationalism/conditional immortality here in the UK.
John Wenham (in his autobiographical ‘Facing Hell’, p69) recalls an informal talk given by Atkinson in the mid-1930s. The main ideas included the following:
[This is an extended and updated version of an article first posted in 2021.]
Sodom was one of the five ‘cities of the plain’ – the others being Gomorrah, Admah, Zoar and Zeboiim. Most of the biblical geographical details occurs in Gen 13:10–11. Gen 19:18–20; 19:1–13 records how they were destroyed by a conflagration because of their extreme sinfulness.
The names of Sodom and Gomorrah resonate throught Scripture as bywords for sin and its punishment (Deut 29:23; 32:32; Is 1:9–10; 13:19; Jer 23:14; 49:18; 50:40; Lam 4:6; Ezek 16:46–49, 53–56; Amos 4:11; Zeph 2:9; Mt 10:15; 11:23–24; Lk 10:12; 17:29; 2 Pet 2:6; Jude 7; Rev 11:8).…
[Notes of a sermon preached in August, 2016]
Psalm 5 – Praying under pressure
Do you feel under pressure as a Christian?
Mt 26:26 ‘While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said, “Take, eat, this is my body.”’
Mk 14:22 ‘While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it. This is my body.”’
Lk 22:19 ‘Then he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you.…
There has been a steady migration of prominent evangelicals – or, least, those with an evangelical background – into the fold of Eastern orthodoxy.
These include, here in the UK, Kallistos Ware, Michael Harper, and, in the US, Peter Gillquist, Hank Hanegraff and Mark Galli.
Evangelicals Now reports on Hope Church Halifax, which was affiliated to the FIEC and has now become St Hilda’s Orthodox Church.
One of its leaders, Deacon Caedmon Clark (formerly known as Doug Clark) has explained why they made the move:
…‘We began to struggle when, as evangelicals, we came across clear statements in the Bible that were contradicted by the teaching of our evangelical tradition.’
Notes of a sermon preached at St Andrew’s Eaton, Norwich, on Sunday 2nd November 20025.
A link to the video can be found at the bottom of this page.
Scripture passage; Matthew 5:33-37
Especially v37 – ‘Let your “Yes” be “Yes.”
Context
At the beginning of this section of the Sermon on the Mount, we have:-
An affirmation: v17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.”…
Psalm 82:6 (NET) — I thought, ‘You are gods; all of you are sons of the Most High.’
John 10:34 ‘Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 10:35 If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken), 10:36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?’…
What follows is largely a precis of ‘A Fresh Look at the Gospel of John’, in Transforming Ministry (Central Readers’ Council) by Paul Burnham. This itself is based on his book ‘The Eagle Returns: A Fresh Look at the Gospel of John‘.
There is a significant gap between the academic study of the Gospel of John and its use by most Christians.
It is important that we can believe that the Gospel records real events.…
