Tag: Day of the Lord

• Rethinking Jesus (03) and John the Baptist

  Let’s return to that day in the late 20s CE, when a 30 year old Jew, Jesus of Nazareth, appeared on the banks of the river Jordan, where a charismatic preacher was baptising people in its waters. Since Jesus was obviously attracted by what he was seeing and hearing, even to the extent of casting…

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  26th Jan 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Day of the Lord, Jesus, John the Baptist, Kingdom of God, Law of God, Messiah

• The Gospels (11) ‘Walking on Water’

  Continuing to look at the Gospels as literature, in my view, hyperbole is used once again to heighten the impact of this 5th ‘sign’ in John 6. We’re told about a boat big enough to accommodate all of Jesus’ 12 disciples, which would be quite a size. As it happens, in 1986, a typical 1st…

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  10th Oct 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Chaos, Day of the Lord, Gospels, Jesus, Myth, Order, Sea, Sea of Galilee

• Paul and the Bath Water

  Like Jesus of Nazareth, Paul was a 1st century, ‘middle-eastern’, Jew. We can expect him to have different ways of seeing things from ours, and he doesn’t disappoint us. We have information, in the New Testament, about what’s said to have happened to him during his action-packed life. We shouldn’t forget, however, that Paul himself…

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  29th Dec 2020

  Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Religion

  Day of the Lord, Israel, Kingdom of God, Paul