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Michelle Walstra
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“…the nature of God’s gracious self-manifestation, taking place in ordinary history, ensures that there can be no escape from historical enquiry.
If Jesus Christ never lived, Christianity is destroyed; if he never died on the cross, Christianity is destroyed; if he never rose from the dead, Christianity is destroyed.”
— Oct 18, 2022 09:40PM
If Jesus Christ never lived, Christianity is destroyed; if he never died on the cross, Christianity is destroyed; if he never rose from the dead, Christianity is destroyed.”
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Michelle Walstra
is on page 40 of 336
“The aim of thoughtful Christians, after all, is not so much to become masters of scripture, but to be mastered by it, both for God‘s glory and his people’s good.”
— Oct 19, 2022 10:21PM
Michelle Walstra
is on page 38 of 336
“Aligned with the powerful respect contemporary Western culture assigns to pluralism, this new hermeneutic rules no interpretation invalid except that one which claims it is right and others are invalid.”
Accurate!
— Oct 19, 2022 10:15PM
Accurate!
Michelle Walstra
is on page 37 of 336
“He has ensured that his own self-disclosure should be abundantly clear to those who by grace have eyes to see and ears to hear, but can never be as rigorously self-evident as a mathematical theorem where human beings control all the definitions and the rules of the relationships.”
— Oct 18, 2022 10:16PM
Michelle Walstra
is on page 31 of 336
“When consideration is given to the diversity in cultural backgrounds and in orientation to the essentials of the Christian faith within the churches, their common agreement about which books belonged to the New Testament serves to suggest that this final decision did not originate solely at the human level.”
— Oct 18, 2022 10:00PM
