Passing by Nehushtan: Messianic Prophecy, its Betrayal and Triumph
Book Details
Author(s)Bruce Silverthorne
ISBN / ASINB00DCU774M
ISBN-13978B00DCU7742
Sales Rank2,171,376
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Has the Christian faith been thoroughly explained through the long centuries after the deaths of Christ and the apostles? Augustine? Aquinas? Calvin? Barth? Billy Graham? Catholicism? Protestantism? Primitivism? Universalism? Presuppositionalism? Evidentialism? Have all these authors and viewpoints really helped us understand and live the scriptures better? Is there nothing still to be found in the Bible, the greatest revelation and writing ever produced, after these relatively artificial layers have been removed? Are we, and the voice of scripture itself, really to be thought at the mercy of human creativity and manipulation for its impact to be felt and minds supernaturally illuminated as God intended it?
The answer: no! But if these represent distorting layers of mediation between ourselves and a transcendent revelation, by what other means are we to steer our apprehension of it, knowing that its many communicated issues and implications have to be controlled through some kind pre-hermeneutic and understanding? There are two systems of the world which they all fall into: liberalism and conservatism, which has obsessed it from the beginning, most obviously since Plato and Aristotle. The way out is not seeking to satisfy them in some mixture, but how to return to the scriptures by finding whatever about it has been neglected, relegated, ignored and lost by them. The answer will be what was ever before us all along, but like all true stumblingblocks, we never notice it until we have fallen and it is too late.
But it’s not too late for us all. Not too late to rethink our fundamental ground of faith. Not too late to reset our theological and philosophical “vital center.†Not too late to stop our equivocation and dishonestly over the question of God’s only holy, specially ordained, motivational locus in the scriptural revelation for salvation, set so as the only admissible informational equivalent of the Son of God in the world. Not too late to finally ground the essential basis for sin and righteousness, and, this time, inaugurate the beginning of a true apostolic reformation.
The Bible is about one thing: messianic prophecy and its fulfillment, and the imperative of our love, knowledge and faith of Jesus Christ through it. The implications of this simple truth are expounded here, to change our reading of scripture, and ourselves, forever, and in a way that the world could never have imagined.
The answer: no! But if these represent distorting layers of mediation between ourselves and a transcendent revelation, by what other means are we to steer our apprehension of it, knowing that its many communicated issues and implications have to be controlled through some kind pre-hermeneutic and understanding? There are two systems of the world which they all fall into: liberalism and conservatism, which has obsessed it from the beginning, most obviously since Plato and Aristotle. The way out is not seeking to satisfy them in some mixture, but how to return to the scriptures by finding whatever about it has been neglected, relegated, ignored and lost by them. The answer will be what was ever before us all along, but like all true stumblingblocks, we never notice it until we have fallen and it is too late.
But it’s not too late for us all. Not too late to rethink our fundamental ground of faith. Not too late to reset our theological and philosophical “vital center.†Not too late to stop our equivocation and dishonestly over the question of God’s only holy, specially ordained, motivational locus in the scriptural revelation for salvation, set so as the only admissible informational equivalent of the Son of God in the world. Not too late to finally ground the essential basis for sin and righteousness, and, this time, inaugurate the beginning of a true apostolic reformation.
The Bible is about one thing: messianic prophecy and its fulfillment, and the imperative of our love, knowledge and faith of Jesus Christ through it. The implications of this simple truth are expounded here, to change our reading of scripture, and ourselves, forever, and in a way that the world could never have imagined.
