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2021-08-23T18:30:57+01:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

When First I Knew

Last updated on: August 23, 2021 at 6:30 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

I was brought up in a strict, evangelical setting. To my eyes, at least, God was primarily concerned about monitoring my behaviour, rather than loving me. If I did hear of his love, in church, it was in the context of how awful human beings are, and that our only value lies in his inexplicable devotion. There was nothing innately lovely about us, or so I believed. That’s not a great message for a child in their formative years,... Read more

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2021-08-20T18:25:40+01:00

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When God is Free to Move

Last updated on: August 20, 2021 at 6:25 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

Subtitle: In About an Hour Readers from my generation might remember a 1980s TV advert for a well-known photo developer, who proudly boasted they could produce a set of prints ‘in about an hour’. This post is about one of the most extraordinary hours of my life, in which I was privileged to witness what the Lord can achieve, if given room to move. It was early 1997 and I was in Cebu City, serving as a... Read more

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2021-08-16T19:18:54+01:00

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Would the Real Jehovah Please Stand Up? Part 4 – The Life of Jesus

Last updated on: August 16, 2021 at 7:18 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

In the first three instalments of Would The Real Jehovah Please Stand Up, we’ve established a foundation of God’s fundamental nature, as stated by David in Psalm 145, 8-9: ‘The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works.’ We’ve examined how the goodness of God found expression, and at times was temporarily obscured, in the Garden... Read more

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2021-08-11T17:54:28+01:00

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Will the Real Jehovah Please Stand Up? Part 3

Last updated on: August 11, 2021 at 5:54 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

Hebrew Law. In parts one and two of this series, I’ve examined the interaction and nature of God as seen in Eden and the time of Noah – whether historic or allegorical stories, the message is the same. It would take half the post to recap what was discussed, so I’ll leave a couple of links here and here, for parts 1 and 2, and move on into the interaction between God and his people in the time... Read more

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You Have Not Come

2021-08-09T17:43:07+01:00

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Would the Real Jehovah Please Stand Up? Part 2 – The Time of Noah

Last updated on: August 9, 2021 at 5:43 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

The Time of Noah Last time we looked at Adam and Eve (whether literal figures or an allegory of humankind’s relationship with God, the message is the same), and how judgement was the pivotal sin that brought about the Great Plummet of the human race. When we appropriated for ourselves the position of Judge – of ourselves, others and God – we laid claim to a platform that is the sole province of the Almighty. Only God is capable... Read more

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2021-08-03T19:39:03+01:00

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Would the Real Jehovah Please Stand Up?

Last updated on: August 3, 2021 at 7:39 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

Part 1 – The Garden of Eden Let’s be honest; the Bible can get a bit confusing when it comes to the nature of God. For instance, the kindness we see in Jesus is absent under Hebrew Law. Does God forgive us freely, as the New Testament teaches, or does he insist we are stoned to death for the picking up of sticks on the Sabbath, as he did in events described in Numbers 15? In this... Read more

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2021-07-31T21:52:26+01:00

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Yielding to Peace

Last updated on: July 31, 2021 at 9:52 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

To the best of my understanding, God has blessed us abundantly in every area (Romans 8, 32): ‘He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?’ We are inheritors of a fabulous spiritual and emotional life (Romans 14, 32): ‘For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness,... Read more

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2021-07-28T19:54:47+01:00

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The Deepest Ache

Last updated on: July 28, 2021 at 7:54 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

Discipleship would be easy if it wasn’t for other people. If it were just the Lord and I, communing in the privacy of my home, and that alone determined the quality of my personal growth, I’d be flying. Though discipleship begins with divine connection, its continuance is found in human relationships. We all carry wounds. Some of the deepest were inflicted in childhood, and have festered ever since. They undermine us, send us round the same loop time and... Read more

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2021-07-27T19:29:26+01:00

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What Is Sin?

Last updated on: July 27, 2021 at 7:29 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

Sin is such an emotionally laden term. It is often associated with heaviness and accusation – the angry finger of a vengeful God, wagging in our unworthy faces. Any Biblical term, if misused, becomes associated with the misuse itself, and can become misleading. In this sense, the Church, by means of its doctrinal and cultural assumptions, can reshape important Biblical concepts in its own image. I believe this has happened with sin/sinner/sinful. In this post, I intend to... Read more

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2021-07-27T19:27:51+01:00

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Job – Our Most Consequential Lie, Part 3. Why does This Matter?

Last updated on: July 27, 2021 at 7:27 pm By Duncan Edward Pile

In this, final instalment of Job – Our Most Consequential Lie, I’ll be covering the remainder of the text, presenting a complete, end-to-end interpretation of the book (based on the text itself and its relationship to the Gospel narrative), and explaining why I consider our understand of Job to be so important, and so potentially destructive when we get it wrong. In chapter 32, Job accusations against God cease. The three friends have given up too, leaving room for... Read more

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