Ravi Zacharias and the Judgment of God

God is not only understood to punish individuals for their misdeeds; he punishes whole societies for the misdeeds of their members. We heard this line from Christian fundamentalists in the US after 9/11, which some of them interpreted as God’s punishment for the vices of liberal Americans.

What then was Jesus talking about? It is time, as I shall argue in detail later on, to reject the old idea that Jesus expected the end of the space-time universe—though this does not mean, as the ‘Jesus Seminar’ has imagined, that Jesus did not use ‘apocalyptic’ language.48 Nor does it mean, as I find myself accused of saying by some colleagues, th

This explains, too, the cryptic saying about forgiveness which follows the Beelzebul controversy. The forgiveness of sins, Jesus insisted, was indeed coming, and sins of every kind could be forgiven when that happened; but if someone specifically denied the eschatological work of the spirit of YHWH, they were by that very act declaring themselves t

It is the “although [x] not [y] but [z]” that makes justification central to Paul. It bears this form and plays this song; to put it simply, although [x] God is righteous, this righteousness does not [y] leave God to abandon us but [z] becomes sin for us so that God might minister to us (2 Cor. 5:21).