Lately it has been on my mind to find a way of spreading some of what I believe to be true out into the world of the web'osphere. I don't come from a long line of professional speakers, professors or theologians. But given the right study method, proper means of supporting your findings scripturally and presenting it in a way people can understand. I think anyone can and should share what they know. For two reasons:
1) It may help solve a theological dilemma
2) Allows for people to critique and help you be a better writer, thinker, studier.
My hopes in developing this blog, I am able to step into the realm of the other great thinkers I have been reading and listening to. Like Greg at Stand to Reason (str.org), apologetics.com, Ravi Zacharias, and Please Convince Me. Stand to Reason seems to be the one I tend to pay attention to most because Greg covers a lot of topics. What I have been noticing though is the sever lack of understanding, let alone consideration given at all, to the Hebraic origins of our christian theology. What I tend to hear is that because of the "new" covenant that any and all relevance of the old covenant is null and void.
What also bugs me is this whole notion of gnosticly looking at scripture, or rather viewing the whole thing as figurative or symbolic and that it is describing a spiritual, ethereal reality change in heaven and we will see it all when we die. Bah! I am primarily speaking to the amillinialist view people who tend to use Revelation's systematic pictoral language to out right thrust all of scripture under the same pretext.
There you have it, a brief ADD moment on just one of many different topics I will go over in my blogs.
My first "real" blog will be on the topic of the fallen angels who some how created the special race of giants called the Nephilim spoken of in Genesis 6, 2 Peter, and Jude. Many people find it disturbing that angels could mate with women. While others feel this is a direct conflict with current theological understanding of angels (being sexless) and their supposed non-physical bodies. It is said that the proof found within scriptures is to vague to find any truth, and explicitly disqualify Job because it is "poetic literature". I find the research into this area to be suprisingly lacking and insufficient. I will go over what I find to be the biggest supporting proof that the events may have happened, to be found with in the Jude reference. There is a Greek word that is only used one other time in scripture that i feel gives greater weight to the topic.
So until then.