Tag Archives: Jesus Christ

The Cross: Not One of the Universe’s “Nice” Ideas

Dallas Willard writes in The Divine Conspiracy (p. 335), “God,” Paul said, “makes clear the greatness of his love for us through the fact that Christ died for us while we were still rebelling against him” (Rom. 5:8). The exclusiveness of the Christian revelation of God lies here. No one can have an adequate view …

July 16, 2008 – 8:05 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Age, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Gabriel Revelation (The Stone Tablet)

Like Regis Nicoll, Ben Witherington, Amy Hall, and others, I find the recent “Gabriel Revelation” discovery to be a rather interesting piece of new historical information, but certainly not upsetting to our beliefs. It is a stone tablet, dated to sometime in the 1st century BC, that tells of a Messiah killed and resurrected after …

July 8, 2008 – 6:39 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Tagged , , | Comments (7)

Awesome Christ

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

I gave this 30 minute talk at Colonial Harbor in York County, Virginia on June 15, 2008. The point is simple: Jesus Christ is the most awesome person of history. To be specific: people in all times since he walked this earth have had to deal with him. Many have tried to mold him into …

June 16, 2008 – 11:56 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, The Faith | Tagged | Comments Off

Jesus: Who Was He, Really?

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

There sure are a lot of versions of Jesus out there. Can we know the real Jesus? How? It’s almost embarrassing–yet not the least bit surprising–how many different views of him the world offers. Dallas Willard writes in Divine Conspiracy of one such opinion (p. 134), Far too often [Jesus] is regarded as hardly conscious. …

June 13, 2008 – 4:11 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (5)

Jesus: Full of Grace and Truth

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.–John 1:14 Jesus–referred to here as “the Word”–came with glory reflecting his Father in heaven. Part of that reflection was in the grace and truth he expressed. …

May 2, 2008 – 3:59 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (7)

Jesus: Fulfiller of Scripture

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

It all revolves around one man: Jesus Christ. Either he was the greatest person of history, the unique Son of God, or he is nothing at all to us today. What kind of man was he really? We’ll have to take this one topic at a time, starting with this startling claim: “Do not think …

April 30, 2008 – 5:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Knowing the True God

Several commenters have raised questions about God and spirituality from a New Age perspective in the past two weeks. Anna’s is the most trenchant: Who is God? Good question. Who really knows? I believe God to be overall consciousness. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Bereket Teka had already offered an opinion: Man …

April 8, 2008 – 11:24 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Age, The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

More Ironies of Easter

They thought they had Jesus figured out, and they also thought they had him under control. Not so: He [Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor] entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you …

March 23, 2008 – 3:38 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

The Ironies of Easter

The religious and political leaders thought they had Jesus all figured out. I doubt there’s anything in history or literature to match the irony of that. They expected was the kind of thing they usually saw during a trial and execution: fear, self-protection, defensiveness; or possibly something like guilt, regret, or remorse. They thought they …

March 22, 2008 – 4:53 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Good! Friday

From a blog post a few weeks ago: Make no mistake, the cross of Jesus Christ is a drastic solution to a serious problem, and the problem is our fundamental distance, because of rebellion, from the God who created and loves us. He loves us enough that He was willing (”for the joy set before …

March 21, 2008 – 8:13 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments Off