By M. Eugene Boring
Eugene uninteresting addresses the difficulty of the way pondering Christians who are looking to dwell faithfully and responsibly in cutting-edge international can pay attention the note of God in Revelation.
Read Online or Download Revelation (Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching) PDF
Similar ministry & evangelism books
Read e-book online Christian Remnant - African Folk Church (Studies in PDF
Tanzanian Adventism exemplifies the most interesting shifts within the background of religions: the expansion of Christianity in Africa. such a lot awesome during this account is the research of a minority denominations transformation to a veritable folks church.
Get Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the PDF
This e-book is a compelling and balanced background of the California missions and their influence at the Indians they attempted to transform. Focusing totally on the non secular clash among the 2 teams, it sheds new mild at the tensions, accomplishments, and barriers of the California project event.
Download PDF by Alyssa Brugman: Hot Potato, Book 3
As tough as she attempts, Shelby simply cannot remain out of hassle. This time, she and her neighbors Lindsey and Erin cannot withstand paying for a stunning younger pony that's going affordable on the horse auctions. the women are definite that, among them, they've got the abilities to offer the pony a few gentle education and promote it on for no less than thrice the money.
- The end of hope--the beginning : narratives of hope in the face of death and trauma
- The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700 (Christianity and Society in the Modern World)
- Christian Remnant - African Folk Church
- The New Reformation (Ministry for the Third Millennium)
- Survival to Growth
- Group Spirituality: A Workshop Approach
Additional info for Revelation (Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching)
Example text
For who could better provide direction for my hesitations or instruction for my lack of knowledge? I have never been present at the interrogation of Christians. Therefore, I do not know how far such investigations should be pushed, and what sort of punishments are appropriate. I have also been uncertain as to whether age makes any difference, or whether the very young are dealt with in the same way as adults, whether repentance [Latin paenitentiae] and renunciation of Christianity is sufficient, or whether the accused are still considered criminals because they were once Christians even if they later renounced it, and whether persons are to be punished simply for the name "Christian" even if no criminal act has been committed, or whether only crimes associated with the name are to be punished.
Most were not citizens of the empire, who were treated with more respect in the courts (cf. the case of Paul, whom Luke, a contemporary of John, pictures as a Roman citizen [Acts 21: 2728:31], and the different treatment of Roman citizens mentioned in Pliny's letter above). Christians had no defense against the arbitrary power of the Roman government officials who understood little about Christianity, even when they attempted to be decent and fair. Christians and the Emperor Cult For many Christians, including John, the Roman ideological threat was intensified because of its focus on the person of the emperor, who seemed to be a rival of Christ as Lord.
It had been a common idea in the East for centuries, however. In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh was considered divine by nature. In Babylon the ruler was regarded as divine by virtue of being the deity's son. Israelites came into contact with this idea in Canaan, but never accepted their neighbors' idea that rulers were actually divine; in Israel kings were only "adopted" as sons of God (Pss. 2:7; 89:2627; II Sam. 7:14). ), he was pleasantly surprised to be hailed as a god. With the dissolution of the smaller city-states, the people needed a religion big enough to embrace the vastness of their newly discovered world.
