Crazy Theological Thoughts

I was recently revealed something very great.  I always enjoy learning new things.  It brings me great joy when I find something new in the scriptures.  I had something new shown to me this last week.  In Acts 1:8 and even Luke 24:48, Jesus makes a declarative statement, "You are witnesses."  This is a simple statement.  This does not mean we may possibly be witnesses.  This does not mean sometimes we are called to witness.  It means you are in a state of being witnesses. All those who stood with Jesus in the Upper room that evening are witnesses concerning Jesus Christ.  They are witnesses who have had their minds opened in Luke 24.  They are witnesses to the Ascension into Heaven in Acts 1.  These disciples are witnesses, not because they have been called to be witnesses.  They are witnesses because they were there.  Because of what they have seen and heard. Likewise, All those who believe in Jesus Christ are called ...

When people talk about Kingdoms from a biblical point of view of what do they speak?  I was told recently "the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms is well known."  I wonder how true this statement actually is.  I am a Lutheran and was taught the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms as a Child.  But I believe this Doctrine is improperly named in order to communicate with the public Realm. The Bible speaks of various Kingdoms of the world.  In the Old Testament you have the Kingdom of Egypt, Syria, Babylonia, Philistia, Assyria, Persia and many more.  You even will find reference to the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of David.  But of all these Kingdoms, they are generally not paired and even if some were paired it would be difficult to find a significant Doctrine from them. But there is one Kingdom talked about more than any other in the Old and New Testament.  The Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven or as I like to call it the Kingdom of Christ. ...

This one can become very tricky.  God created Adam and Eve in the Image of Himself.  Genesis 1 attests to this truth.  But Genesis 5 attests to another problem.  Genesis 5 states that Adam and Eve bore a child in their own image.  Now someone might contest that Cain and Abel would have had descendant in the Image of God.  But all of them drowned in the Flood.  You will remember only Noah a descendant of Seth and his family survived. In Genesis 9:6 it states, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image."  So there should be a great influence placed on the fact that God created man in his own image.  But yet all the sons of Adam are born in his image.  Genesis 5:3 reminds us that all human beings will bear the burden of original sin. St Paul can tell us that through one man (namely Adam) all men die.  Likewise, through one man (namely Christ) all men a...