Interest in eschatology, even among those who have never heard the word, is alive and well in the US, if sales of the Left Behind book series [Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind: The Series (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1995-2002)] are any measure. Craig Hill writes of bookstores, “T. LaHaye and J. Jenkins’s […]
What happens to us when we die? Many of us have early memories as children of a family member or friend dying and being told that the person is now in heaven. Often the idea that the individual is somehow looking down upon us was presented to us as children, conveying the idea that the
At our first gathering of 2007, we picked up on the tail end of our pre-Christmas conversation about Jesus. We began by looking at the terms “Jesus”, “Christ”, Messiah”, “second person of the Trinity” and so on, and wondered if they all have the same referent. We noted that the term “Christ” (of Greek origin,
