tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35482291.post193480229950897225..comments2023-05-06T19:17:22.300+10:00Comments on Hebel: AFES SALT: Resurrecting the GospelMatthew Moffitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00546422699620482793noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35482291.post-20495118471986791872009-03-23T14:11:00.000+11:002009-03-23T14:11:00.000+11:00Re: resurrectionGnosticism about heaven has its ro...Re: resurrection<BR/><BR/>Gnosticism about heaven has its roots in gnosticism about Genesis.<BR/><BR/>Re: Gazette. Thanks for your encouragement. The letter about DNA I have sent a reply. The other one, he is just mad because I pointed out that he got his quotes confused. And he repeated the URL for me! Bonus.Mike Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00160881512505096044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35482291.post-46598834895004276602009-03-23T13:31:00.000+11:002009-03-23T13:31:00.000+11:00People today "don't need" resurrection because the...People today "don't need" resurrection because they've been taught that resurrection = going to heaven when you die and sitting around on nice fluffy clouds playing harps and singing songs. And everyone gets in.Matthew Moffitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00546422699620482793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35482291.post-35441461035725496472009-03-23T13:29:00.000+11:002009-03-23T13:29:00.000+11:00PS I saw some nasty letters responding to you in t...PS I saw some nasty letters responding to you in the Gazette on the weekend.<BR/><BR/>Hang in there!Matthew Moffitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00546422699620482793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35482291.post-34195182007384648952009-03-23T13:14:00.000+11:002009-03-23T13:14:00.000+11:00That doesn't really answer my gripe, but thanks.That doesn't really answer my gripe, but thanks.Mike Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00160881512505096044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35482291.post-55727582571328900522009-03-23T10:24:00.000+11:002009-03-23T10:24:00.000+11:00Mike,I can't speak for AFES, but my sense of their...Mike,<BR/><BR/>I can't speak for AFES, but my sense of their 'policy' (if indeed they had/needed one) was that death sucks. It's unnatural and with sin has held God's good creation in fear and bondage. And death itself has been put-to-death, so to speak, by the resurrection of Jesus and the arrival of new creation.Matthew Moffitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00546422699620482793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35482291.post-16784907141653319672009-03-22T23:52:00.000+11:002009-03-22T23:52:00.000+11:00MattI look forward to seeing it posted here.I read...Matt<BR/><BR/>I look forward to seeing it posted here.<BR/><BR/>I read the AFES promo:<BR/><BR/>"Simply put, without the resurrection, there is no Christianity."<BR/><BR/>Their intent is good, but I maintain peskily that a Christianity that vacillates on the meaning of "death" in Genesis 3 is swinging the gnostic's rubber sword when it comes to the resurrection.<BR/><BR/>People today "don't need" resurrection, because they have been taught, often by Christians, that death (in natural selection) was a crucial part of how we got here.<BR/><BR/>And this makes me very, very mad with a lot of Christians. It makes the preaching of the resurrection of Jesus into peddling so much snake oil.<BR/><BR/>Thank God that His Spirit even works through the hamstrung preaching of many Christian academics who have compromised with pop-science, pop-anthropology and pop-history. The secularism they are combating stands on exactly the same foundation, which renders them largely irrelevant.<BR/><BR/>(No reflection on AFES here at all - they probably don't have an official position on "death".)Mike Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00160881512505096044noreply@blogger.com