How I Got a Life
I grew up in Sacramento, California in a family of five. We went to church, but I found it boring and irrelevant to my life and family. When I was a teenager, my parents divorced and I deeply felt the loss of a father figure in my life. I had no use for religion at the time and found... >Read More
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Destiny's Child: He Chose Me First
Growing up in East Malaysia, on Borneo island, I often wondered about the future. What could I expect from my life? What lay ahead for me?
I pondered the pattern that I could predictably follow. I would grow up. I would go to church. I would go to school. Eventually, I would go through high school, get my diploma and... >Read More
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Conclusion
This is Part 12 to a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence
Flesh and bones
Many scholars have stumbled at Luke's 'a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have,' claiming this is a direct contradiction to Paul. In fact, Paul speaks of 'flesh and blood', not 'flesh and bones.' Is the difference significant?...... >Read More
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A Physical Resurrection
This is Part 11 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence
But this consideration aside, there are other reasons to think that in the gospel narratives Docetism is not in view:
For a Jew the very term 'resurrection' entailed a physical resurrection of the dead man in the tomb. The notion of a 'spiritual resurrection'...... >Read More
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The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Continued
This is Part 10 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence
Misunderstanding Paul
So although many theologians try to play off the 'massiven Realismus' of the gospels against a Pauline doctrine of a spiritual resurrection body, such reasoning rests on a fundamental and drastic misunderstanding of Paul's doctrine. One...... >Read More
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Two Adams
This is Part 8 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence
Thus, Grass is simply wrong when he characterizes the resurrection as an exchange, a re-creation, and not a transformation.{32} He mistakenly appeals to v 50; his statement that Paul has no interest in the emptying of the graves ignores the clear statements of I...... >Read More
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The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus
This is Part 9 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence
Paul's understanding of resurrection
Paul's doctrine of the nature of the resurrection body now becomes clear. When a Christian dies, his conscious spirit or soul goes to be with Christ until the Parousia, while his body lies in the grave. When Christ returns,...... >Read More
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The Christmas Story
The Gospel according to Luke (Luke 2:1-20)
About that time Caesar Augustus ordered... >more
My Search for Truth
I was born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, Canada. My parents... >more
What Do You Fear?
Do you crave destiny? (Part 2)