In discussions amongst Christians of all stripes regarding the doctrine and details of creation, the foremost disagreement is often that of interpretation of the creation days themselves; whether the six days of creation represent solar days or longer lengths of time. But a close second to this for many may very well be the question
Imagine rifling through a musty attic and stumbling across a box of old pictures and mementos. Perhaps that box contains family records that show the lineage of your ancestors. Or maybe it contains stories of heroism or great courage and perseverance. We may not have pictures or keepsakes like this from the early Biblical patriarchs, but
In previous installations of this series, we introduced the concepts of the major millennial views and millennialism as a whole; that of the nature of a thousand year reign of Christ and His saints laid out primarily in Revelation 20. In Part 1, we laid out the “progressive parallel” model of understanding the book of Revelation
In Part 1 of this series on Revelation 20 and the Millennial Kingdom, we discussed a solid foundation of terms and considerations when attempting to understand the doctrine of the Millennial Reign of Christ in eschatology and how we should understand the book of Revelation itself. We also introduced the text itself and began to dive into
If you’ve ever attended Sunday School in a Protestant setting within the past few decades, or regularly attended Sunday services, you’ve likely sat through a series on the book of Revelation. And, if you’re like me, and experienced this teaching with little to no theological background or previous exposure to end times teaching, you probably
The creation account found in Genesis 1 of the Christian Bible has been revered and studied, scrutinized and criticized, for millennia. Believers and non-believers alike can often quote its first words: ‘In the beginning, God created’. Its literary rhythm of the days of creation, with their mornings and evenings, and its fantastical account of the
Some of history’s most iconic stories, those that have pervaded and impacted culture, come from the Christian Bible. And perhaps no other characters, apart from Christ Himself, have left such a broad and lasting legacy on so many institutions of human culture than those of Adam and Eve. The first humans encountered during many a
There is an old adage that gets repeated from time to time in church circles regarding the merits of a “child-like” faith. It tends to go something like this: “We ought to trust in God with the faith of a child, a faith that resembles a child’s faith in the nature of their parents.” The
For almost one hundred years now, the focal point for so much international chaos has been the Middle East. And one of the underlying hubs that ties together many disparate events there has been the existence of and various relationships with the modern state of Israel. The land that it occupies has been actively contested