The blog of a Middle Anglican
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I am unsure whether there are going to be very many posts in this category, but I have created a category specially for it, just in case. It seems to me that there is greater similarity between the biblical creation myths and the big bang theory than might at first appear. In this sense: That [...]
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When atheists want to entertain you, they will give you their version of what happened at the Council of Nicea in 325AD; it seems to be the one ecumenical council they have all heard of. Typically you will learn that the Trinity was invented there, that the biblical texts were rewritten there, that the New [...]
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For those who are interested, the following is the first chapter of “Thomas’s Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ.” Not to be confused with the Gospel of Thomas, discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945, it dates from the mid second century,. It was written to satisfy the second century’s appetite for more details of [...]
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Today I have been reading various passages about today’s feast of Christ the King. That the kingship of Jesus is unlike that of any earthly king, because it involves the exercise of love, is today repeated so often that it is becoming something of a cliche. Not for the first time it occurred to me [...]
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On a forum I today read (yet again) somebody saying that, if you don’t read every part of the Bible literally, you can’t really be a Christian. The particular part of the Bible she was talking about was Exodus. So I made the point that it was not altogether obvious where Moses would have found [...]
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I thought that I would kick off this category by reproducing one of the documents from the early Church. Mostly because it is short enough for me to type out by hand, I settled upon the Epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans. Although an Epistle to the Laodiceans is mentioned in the canonical Epistle to [...]
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