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Comment on Was the Last Supper a Passover? by James B Jordan

James B Jordan — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:38:57 +0000

Yes, Jonah was 3 days and 3 nights in the special fish, which is not a symbol of burial in the ground. The fish represented Assyria, which Jonah would prepare as a new ark (including animals) to carry Israel through the gentile sea. Anyway, this all contradicts John 2:19, which says that on the third day Jesus would rise. Three days and three nights leads to the fourth, not the third day. Jesus was in the ground from Friday night, through Saturday, and into Sunday, rising on the third day. He was in the center of the world three full days and nights. This may seem weird if you’re not used to it, but it is the fact, and hardly a new view. It is the only way to reconcile His rising from the grave ON the third day, and the notion of a full 3 days and nights in “the heart of the earth.”

Comment on Was the Last Supper a Passover? by Margaret Lee

Margaret Lee — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:36:27 +0000

Thanks for your response. Anyway, this is the wierdest explanation I’ve ever heard, taking into account Jesus’ reference to Jonah being ‘three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish.’ Matt. 12:40 (NKJV). Also, in John 2:19 Jesus said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” This was clarified in verse 21, after being misinterpreted by the Jews (v.20) It would seem more like He was refering to being in the grave for that time-span. Take another look at the references. Ok?

Comment on Was the Last Supper a Passover? by James B Jordan

James B Jordan — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:38:34 +0000

The heart of the earth is Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the center, or navel (Ezekiel 38:12). Jesus was not buried in the heart of the earth, but in a hillside. Anyway, three days and nights begins with His coming to Jerusalem for Passover and ends with his resurrection. Thanks. Good question.

Comment on Was the Last Supper a Passover? by Margaret Lee

Margaret Lee — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:39:36 +0000

What about Jesus’ prophecy of being in the ‘heart of the earth three days and three nights’? How does your chronology account for that time span?

Comment on Principalities and Powers, Part 2 by nouspraktikon

nouspraktikon — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:08:24 +0000

Sorry, I attributed this to James Jordan and now I see it was written by Rich Bledsoe. Great article Rich. I’m sure James would concur.

Comment on Principalities and Powers, Part 2 by nouspraktikon

nouspraktikon — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:03:47 +0000

This incisive blog-sermon is the best thing I have read all year, and i read a LOT! As an American expat living in Asia, I see this process happening on a day to day basis. As someone who loosely defines himself as “evangelical” i see the idolatrous idiocy of “family values” being substituted for the gospel on the sabbath. Dr. Jordan, you are a Christian Spengler (i mean the Weimar era German, not the American who wrote for the Asian Times of late). To life a phrase from Ron Paul, the gospel isn’t “conservatism” its “R3VOLUTION!”

God Bless,
Mark Sunwall, aka “nouspraktikon”

Comment on A Tad More on the “Regeneration” Business by Jerry Bowyer

Jerry Bowyer — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:06:09 +0000

I said that awkwardly, and I’d like to try again: Revivalism seems to be about helping church members be sure that they really are saved. How are you sure? You feel guilty for your sins, loathe yourself for them, then you have a conversion experience which acts as a cathartic purge of guilt. But that can lead to something like, ‘the more guilty I feel about my sins, the more sure I am that I’m saved’ and eventually to ‘I’m not sure that I’m saved, but if I can gin up enough self loathing, then I can be sure.’

Comment on A Tad More on the “Regeneration” Business by Jerry Bowyer

Jerry Bowyer — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:56:48 +0000

I’ve seen the tendency for people who strongly emphasize the model that focuses measuring legitimacy of conversion through intensity of inward experience to enter into a kind of fideism. Yes, they say you are saved by Jesus, but if the definitive evidence of that is the intensity of your revulsion against your own sinfulness, you will tend to try to gin up enough revulsion to be sure that you really are saved. I’ve seen this, especially among reformed Baptists, who I suspect are the most direct descendants of the Great Awakenings.

Comment on The Great Awakening: A Critique by Dean W. Arnold

Dean W. Arnold — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:46:34 +0000

I am Eastern Orthodox but raised by a PCA pastor and a mother who were both converted through Campus Crusade. They are wonderful people, but I have grown increasingly concerned, even alarmed, by how quickly various people can be offhandedly dubbed “Christians” or “non Christians.” Or “he’s not saved.” Like Hodge’s description of Whitefield, they do this with often very little evidence to work with. It especially concerns me when this is said about people who attend, even “nominally” as they would say, churches that believe the creed.

I just think we need to allow for more subtlety and practice more discretion and grace in our pronouncements.

Comment on Obama as Fool by True Gravity | Bully's Blog

True Gravity | Bully's Blog — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:15:52 +0000

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