“The Last Enemy”: A Brief Theology of Death (Part 2)
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Physical Death
Not only did God’s curse upon humanity entail a spiritual death; it also resulted in physical death or the dissolution of the body. You may recall God’s judicial pronouncement on Adam:
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“The Last Enemy”: A Brief Theology of Death (Part 1)
The Bible portrays death as the consequence of human sin. Death was the sanction that God tied to the Garden of Eden stipulation: “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Gen. 2:16-17). And God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden on account of their covenant breach and treason demonstrated that His threats were not empty. Death became the lot of Adam and his posterity.
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Will We Know Everything in Heaven or Will We Learn?
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“People often say, ‘We don’t understand now, but in Heaven we’ll know everything.’ Is this true? Definitely not.” - Randy Alcorn
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“Some scientists say we don’t have free will. As a philosopher I say, of course we do”
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Determinism says “everything is fully caused and explained by the past and laws of nature, meaning human actions result entirely from the external factors…. Is our world truly deterministic? And if so, would this imply we lack free will?” - LA Times
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Art Proves We’re More than Dust in the Wind – A Review of Jeremy Begbie’s ‘Abundantly More’
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Begbie “suggests a fresh and largely neglected value of the arts. They offer a counternarrative to the naturalistic reductionism that permeates disciplines like science, philosophy, and psychology.” - TGC
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“Stop using anthropomorphic language to describe models.”
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“The real threat of AI isn’t what you think. AI has the capacity to undermine our understanding of the human person.” - RNS
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How should Christians think about transhumanism?
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“Without a clear vision of what it means to be human in the first place, it is difficult to believe we will arrive at a desirable end no matter what means we employ.” - CPost
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The Anticipated AI-Made Pseudo-Religions of Tomorrow Sound Uncannily Like Those of Yesterday
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“I argue that computer technology has already birthed a new, online techno-religion: a modern-day revival of Gnosticism.” - Public Discourse
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Women Are God-Called and God-Gifted, Essential to the Body of Christ
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“While…I don’t believe women should be the pastors or regular teachers of men in the church, I do believe that in the pushback against that idea of women pastors, often the case gets overstated, and there is an anti-women feel to it, which disturbs me.” - Randy Alcorn
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