scripture

What makes us Human? Part 2.

Posted on 23 July, 202228 August, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 7 minutes The Early Church understood, the person as the resultant of body and soul, as an integral unit and not of that of two entities. In other terms, a human being is seen as one entity, composed of two distinct irreducible constituents where immortality of the soul was an alien concept to most

What makes us Human? Part 1

Posted on 4 July, 202227 August, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 9 minutes Humans have an inescapable problem of understanding what defines them, because the nature of the definition is both paradoxical and complicated.

Communication Theory and the Ancient World. Part 1.

Posted on 8 May, 202210 May, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 5 minutes The word “rhetoric” (ῥητορική), is a victim of “Semantic Drift” that has seen its classical meaning changed from its original Greek meaning: skill in speaking articulated as the art of persuasion, into propaganda or empty talk.

The Athens “Fail”

Posted on 23 January, 20227 May, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 7 minutes Paul was not in Athens to prove the existence of any ‘new’ divinity. Paul argues that the Athenians had already recognised the existence of God in Athens, because there was already erected an altar to him, namely the one to ‘the unknown God’ (αγνωστω θεω, agnosto theo).

“Logos” or “Not Logos”. That is the question.

Posted on 8 January, 20225 May, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 6 minutes The word λόγος, (logos, word Strongs NT 3056, one of the most widely used terms in the NT; 331 occurrences) has a huge semantic domain. In John’s Gospel Logos is a clear reference to Jesus. In the opening chapter and verse (John 1:1) the Apostle introduces the idea that Jesus is the Word.

Apologetic Methodology

Posted on 30 December, 20219 April, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 7 minutes For any non believer, serious about wanting to know about Christianity, the most frequent question they will ask Christians is “why are you a Christian?” The first answers to be given should explain what Christianity is and what Christians believe, biblically.

Who’s a “prosperity apologist”?

Posted on 19 December, 20219 April, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 4 minutes The first Christians accepted totally that God had revealed himself in Christ and also through Scripture. This leads us here to be concerned particularly with the function and nature of Scripture, the written Word, as God’s special revelation.