Tag: John 3

The Freedom of God and the Free Will of Human Beings

Jun 11, 2008

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mwkruse

in Theology

Ben Witherington: The Freedom of God and the Free Will of Human Beings …I short, the discussion of the freedom of human beings should never be undertaken in isolation from the discussion of the freedom of God, and the ways God has chosen to limit himself in order to allow us to be beings with…
Household: Reviewing the Big Picture (Part 2)

Sep 7, 2007

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by

mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Jesus and the New Testament leaders needed ways to express metaphorically the ethos of God's new community. Family and household became dominant metaphors. There were instances of the household image in the Old Testament but nothing like the rich imagery we see in the New Testament. Yet the Jesus movement was not the only one…