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1. http://www.waltermartin.org/realaudio.html
For the month of April there is a taped debate featured on the resurrection, between the late Dr. Walter Martin and Dr. Dale Miller. I bought the debate on tape about 15 years ago and have since converted in to mini-disc. Martin takes a traditional, orthodox perspective and Miller attempts to explain that resurrection has a variety of Biblical meanings.
The gospels discuss a resurrected Christ who has a body of both physical and spiritual nature, and the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15: 44 explains that the resurrection body shall be spiritual. Let me be clear from Paul's perspective if Christ was not raised, there is no resurrection of the dead and preaching and the faith is in vain, as he states in 1 Corinthians 15: 13-14. Biblical Christianity cannot survive without a literal physical resurrection of Christ after completing his atoning work. This resurrection leads to the eventual resurrection of believers. Religion, or a form of cultural Christianity can exist with the primary belief in a metaphorical, figurative resurrection or resurrections, but it is not supported by Scripture. Dr. Gary Habermas has done years of academic research on the resurrection of Christ.
http://www.garyhabermas.com/
2. http://www.technorati.com/
I think that this blog ranking and linking service is helpful, although I had to email technorati several times and eventually fax them until they finally updated my thekingpin68 philosophical theology blog after almost half a year. To me the ranking is not primary in importance as a blog's level of quality cannot be completely evaluated through a process of counting links and hits etc. However, I like knowing through technorati who is linking to my blogs and to read comments being made on other blogs. For a small blog which is less than a year old, satire and theology has done fairly well and I appreciate those who read the articles, comment and link me. Originally thekingpin68 was my only blog but I wanted to separate my philosophical theology from my satirical material and so I created kingpinned and eventually satire and theology. Kingpinned now contains photos of my comic art!:) I figure that I own the site and so I might as well use it. Thekingpin68 originally contained more articles in the beginning years of 2004-2005 and some are now on this blog in the archives. I wish that thekingpin68 was ranked higher than this blog by technorati as I put more time into the articles on that site, but I aim for the highest quality with both sites and realize that both blogs are ranked pretty well for small blogs. Satire and theology is a bit easier to read with shorter articles and has satire, sports etc. that thekingpin68 does not. Some persons are just not into reading long academic type articles and I can understand that fact. I am so busy that I do not often take the time to fully read academic blog articles, I often just skim. I recommend for those of you who may try reading thekingpin68 to try skimming. From 16 years of academic work I can tell you that skimming can be beneficial. Now of course when writing my dissertations I go over some written material again and again. Satire and theology also often offers more personal theological reflection than thekingpin68. I suppose that some who read thekingpin68 find my theology interesting but may not be interested in some of the shenanigans that go on here, and so I have two theology related blogs! I have looked at most of the rankings for bloggers that comment and link my blogs by the way. Some of you should check to see if technorati updates your rankings and links, if you care.
Russ:)
I am visiting an Orthodox church late tommorow night, and it shall be my first visit inside of an Orthodox church. I shall perhaps comment on the trip as an addition to my latest thekingpin68 article.
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Hi Russ, blessed Good Friday to you. May I ask you a question as I know you are a theology student? What is known about how long Jesus remained on the cross? Another on my list is talking about this on his blog and I thought you might have some views and insights.
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of Christ. Let there be no doubt, and let the Holy Scripture speak, and let history be a witness to the fact that Jesus Christ has risen! He has risen indeed! And not only has He risen but He shall return again, He is our Hope and He is our life!
-Being Buff just doesn't compare to this Jesus Stuff!-
There seems to be some sort of HTML tag that technorati provides that you can imbed in your template that will automatically ping your blog and tell technorati when you update.
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Thanks for the debate link. That sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
Happy Easter!
Thanks very much Bobby, Ruthie and WW, for the comments. I am just back from the Orthodox Church and dropped Chucky off at his mansion. I shall write briefly on my visit in comments on the Eastern Orthodox Church article on thekingpin68.
ReplyDeleteMr. Buff: I am sure that you are hoping that with our resurrection bodies that you shall have the wicked build you always wanted. I believe that you shall...but so perhaps shall everyone else in Christ.
Ruthie: There is also a ping option at the technorati site. Your blog is doing pretty well! Yes, the debate is good and could be eye opening for some.
WW: That is a question I had not thought of, or seen answered.
Stephen S. Short writes in 'Mark' that Jesus was crucified at the third hour which my New American Standard Bible lists as 9 am (Mark 15: 25) and was still on the cross at 3 pm which is the ninth hour (Mark 15: 33). Short (1986: 1179). So, Christ was likely on the cross for at least six hours.
Mark says that at the sixth hour which in noon, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour, which is 3 pm. The Gospel of John has Jesus appearing with Pilate at the Pavement at the sixth hour which is 6 am (John 19: 14). My New American Standard Bible lists the sixth hour as perhaps 6 am Roman time.
The New American Standard Bible calls both noon and 6 am, the sixth hour.
From:
http://www.apocalipsis.org/difficulties/thirdhour.htm
Was Jesus crucified in the third hour or the sixth hour?
Mark 15:25 (cf. John 19:14) Was Jesus crucified in the third hour or the sixth hour?
Mark 15:25 It was the third hour when they crucified him.
(John 19:14-16 NIV) It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour. "Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews. {15} But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" "Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered. {16} Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.
Answer:
Mark uses the Jewish time keeping system and John uses the Roman.
Roman time went from midnight to midnight. The Jewish 24 hour time period began in the evening at 6 pm and the morning of that day began at 6 am. Thus Mark is stating that Jesus was crucified at 9 am and John is stating that the trial was still on at 6 am. In John 19:16 we see that the soldiers took charge of Jesus, meaning that the crucifiction had not yet taken place. So the times are reasonable.
If we look at John's other uses of time 10 am seems a reasonable to to be preaching.
(John 1:35-39 NIV) The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. {36} When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!" {37} When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. {38} Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do you want?" They said, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?" {39} "Come," he replied, "and you will see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour.
With the woman at the well story of John 4, Jesus was tired from his journey and 6 pm seems a reasonable time for this. Just before sundown when it was cool and the woman would come to draw water.
(John 4:3-7 NIV) When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. {4} Now he had to go through Samaria. {5} So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. {6} Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. {7} When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"
Ross A Taylor
SHORT, STEPHEN S. (1986) 'Mark', in F.F. Bruce, (ed.), The International Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, Marshall Pickering/Zondervan
Thanks for answering that S&T...a quick aside, I wonder if the the "3 hours of darkness that fell over the Earth" upon Jesus' crucifixion is mistakenly often considered to be the amount of time he spent on the cross?
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