The Wandering Heretic

Like the authorship of Romans (Paul), the city of origin for the letter is also not contested by modern scholars. Uniformly, they say that the letter was written from Corinth. The consensus is driven by the listing of names in Romans 16. The Reformation Study Bible gives a good summary of the [...]

I have been posting my thoughts on the doctrine of supersessionism. By that doctrine I mean, in a shorthand summary, what the nation state of Israel was for the world before Christ, the church now so functions after his ascension. By that same doctrine, I also held to the more controversial positions that the [...]

 
Continuing on the “World Religion” cruise.

My previous post discussed internal factors in the book of James that pointed to the author being the Apostle James rather than James the brother of the Lord. If correct, all of these factors point to a period of time after Acts 8 (the dispersion of the Christian Jews from Jerusalem) but before Acts [...]

My last few theological posts had to do with the doctrine of supersessionism. Since the content of this doctrine, to be understood fully, uses the imagery of the grafted on olive tree, Romans 11 needs to be discussed in some detail. Also, many commentators interpret Romans 11 as a prediction of a [...]

Last year, Eric Wedge and Mark Shapiro were the bane of Cleveland’s existence. A noted columnist had this to say in 2006:
I’ll admit, I am not the biggest fan of Wedge these days. His inability to be an effective in-game manager, be it handling pitchers, executing several different offensive/defensive strategies, using his bench, [...]

I have concluded that the Body of Christ in the New Testament has superseded the role of Israel in the Old. To prove this point, I separated the role of the Land of Israel from the Religion of Judaism. This distinction, though true, is not entirely applicable. After all, the religion of [...]

There is little question that the Doctrine of Supersessionism is what is currently behind the concerted attacks by Jewish interviewers against Anne Coulter. Though Anne is probably not the best spokesperson for orthodox, historic Christianity, there is little doubt that at least for the time being, she has been thrown into that position. [...]

 
Continuing on the “World Religion” cruise.

Apparently over the weekend, without notifying me, my website host provider shut down operations to migrate to new servers. What was to be an eight hour job turned into over three days of down time for my website. If you are reading this, you obviously know I am back up.
In any case, that [...]