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Recent content by Alan Hooker

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    Liberal Good News?

    This. I think Jesus' Gospel can be summed up as: God is your Father, you are his child. Personally, I think believing in and acting upon one's sonship with God (which includes recognising Jesus as your elder brother) constitutes eternal life - the life of God and his Christ.
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    Liberal Good News?

    I don't think the liberal understanding of the Gospel revolves around 'getting to heaven.' For me, it revolves around providing shalom, "wholeness", to creation here and now. The Kingdom of Heaven is inside of you. The conservative outlook seems to be, 'utter a few magic words, and hey...
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    Liberal Hell

    Jesus died to defeat and save us from death, from personality extinction. (1 Corinthians 15:54) When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” (Isaiah 25:8) He will...
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    Liberal Hell

    Hi Urban Prophet, My understanding of Hell leans more towards annihilationism.
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    The body but not the soul

    I agree with you - what I said was my impression of those who believed in 'soul sleep'. Granted, my understand is probably flawed, so I'm sorry on that front!
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    The body but not the soul

    I don't think people who subscribe to soul sleep believe the body is a vital part of the soul. I thought in 'soul sleep' ideology, the soul is the spirit of God which enlivens the body, and returns to God once the body has perished. Destroying the body would not destroy the soul, since the soul...
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    Sola Scriptura vs man made traditions

    The phrase 'all scripture' used in 2 Timothy 3:16 cannot be referring to the New Testament, since when it was penned the NT was not yet canonised. Also, do you not think using scripture to support sola scriptura is a bit circular? "Why do you believe in sola scriptura?" "Because the Bible...
  8. Alan Hooker

    Did the universe begin to exist?

    Well, Genesis 1:1 may not spell it out as clearly as is hoped. The Hebrew may imply that matter existed alongside God, in which case, the matter with which the cosmos was formed is not itself created. Just thought I'd throw that in there...
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    Was the Book of Enoch written by the Biblical Enoch?

    Milik 1976 outlines these points: the semi-formal script of 4QEn_a (contains fragments from an Aramaic book of Enoch) belongs to the 3rd or 2nd centuries BCE (cf. 4QEx_f and 4QQoh_a). Admittedly, there are signs in 4QEn_a that it's a copy of an older manuscript (confusion of yod for original peh...
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    Was the Book of Enoch written by the Biblical Enoch?

    The Book of Enoch was composed between the 3rd and 1st centuries BCE. It could not have be written by the biblical prophet Enoch.
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    Exact Date Of Christ's Death

    Agreed. According to NASA's website, the lunar eclipse that happened on April 3, 33 CE was partial, not total, so there wouldn't have been the red effect. Also, the time the eclipse occured was around 17:30 UT, or about 19.30 in Israel. That's far too late, given Jesus was crucified 'at the...
  12. Alan Hooker

    What do you think is the image of God?

    God's bodily form. The word צלם denotes a physical form. All of him.
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    How do you really feel about Adam's fall?

    The actions of Adam and Eve handicapped the future physical and spiritual environment of the planet (Gen 3:17-19), and though their actions created spiritual disharmony, God still continued to take care of them (Gen 3:21). Moreover, we see that God still chose to speak to their descendents...
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    Exact Date Of Christ's Death

    Which historians place Herod the Great's death in 6 BCE?
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    Exact Date Of Christ's Death

    That is certainly a minority view. Herod Archelaus, Herod's successor as ethnarch of Judea, was exiled to Gaul in 6 CE, which Josephus records the 10th year of his reign (or 9th, according to Wars 2.7.3). This places the end of Herod the Great's reign in 5-4 BCE, not 1 BCE.
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