The Church of God Among the Nations
Dr. Norman Horn
This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the 1800s. Learn
Tag: Old Testament
The Old Testament Kings and God’s Justice
Dr. Norman Horn
In our investigations we have found that God, at all times, kept a wide gulf of separation between his Jewish kingdom and subjects, and the world-institutions by which they were surrounded. No alliances—no affiliations—no courtesies as equals with the man-governments or their subjects, were never engaged in without receiving a signal mark of God’s displeasure.
Biblical Origins of Human Government
Dr. Norman Horn
This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the 1800s. Learn
The Creation Story, Part II: the Responsibility of Adam and Eve
Eli Hage
In The Creation Story, Part I, we discussed the Hebrew term ha-adam. God creates ha-adam out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo), and thus man is
The Creation Story, Part I: the Freedom of Ha-Adam
Eli Hage
The Book of Genesis begins with creation. God creates the heavens and the earth. He creates light to illuminate the heavens and the earth. He
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 as an Ancient Limitation on Political Authority
Dr. Jamin Andreas Hübner
Deuteronomy is a puzzling book. It’s a marvelous ‘farewell sermon’ by Moses before Joshua takes up command, but the literary history challenges any historian or
Ep 28: American Idol (Annotated CFL Talk #3)
LCI Staff
As part of our summer lineup, we’re revisiting several of the most popular and informative talks given at Christians for Liberty conferences in previous years.
Ep 27: Cross Vision with Greg Boyd
LCI Staff
Theologians have struggled for almost the entire history of the Church to analyze and explain the violence attributed to God in the Bible, particularly the
Old Testament Christians
Laurence Vance
There is, of course, no such thing as an Old Testament Christian, since the disciples of Jesus Christ were “called Christians first at Antioch” (Acts
The Israel of God and American Foreign Policy
Dr. Norman Horn
I want to address something that concerns me much more than momentary arguments over foreign policy. I would like to address Christians, specifically from the Bible, on two separate, but inter-connected questions. The first question I would like to attempt to answer is whether or not the current nation state known as Israel today is “the Israel of God”. In other words, is the current geographic nation-state that was established in the early 1950’s the same entity as the Biblical Israel?
