(Matthew 4:27) So the kingdom of God is at work in things that are ordinary and it brings growth, development and life. ... Mission obtained a new character and there was greater focus on understanding of language, background, context and culture customs. ...
"# Our word "gospel" has a definite religious connotation whereas in the ordinary conversation of the first century it did not.# However, Wuest describes that: It was taken over into the Cult of Caesar where it acquired a religious significance. ... The idea here, from the context of this passage, is that to the first century Jews the "good news" was preached similarly compared to the "good news" for Israel, as they came out of Egypt, to a land flowing with milk and honey. ... Often, this visual context and representation provides added meaning, understanding, and even emotional impor...
One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. There are many ways it might be understood, of course, and perhaps more than one is coherent and even from a Christian point o...
