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Tag Archives: Messiah
Promissory Atheism and Promissory Theism
I”ve been thinking about something that the late Nobel Prize winner, Sir John Eccles, said of strict materialism. He called it “promissory materialism”, and said of it: “I regard this theory as being without foundation. The more we discover scientifically about the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, End Times, Messiah, messianic prophecies, multiverse hypothesis, philosophy, religion, science, second coming
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Be Here Now
There’s something eschatalogical about the above clip that I like. It contains within it the seed of the idea that life goes on in a functional way, but when a very particular “presence” arrives on the scene you drop everything and enter … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, a thief in the night, End Times, eschatology, hamlet's ghost, Messiah, second coming, the call, The Gong Show, ufo abduction
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“In three days, live!”: A Book Review of Israel Knohl’s “Messiahs and Resurrection in ‘The Gabriel Revelation'” (Continuum 2009)
Israel Knohl’s book, Messiahs and Resurrection in The Gabriel Revelation, is an important event for students of Christian origins, for it is the first book-length treatment, by a prominent biblical scholar, of an unusually important archaeological artifact: A recently discovered … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, archeology, Bible, book review, Christian origins, Christianity, gospel of Mark, Jesus, Messiah, messianism, religion, the gabriel revelation
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Prometheus Unbound 