Jul 3, 2021 | Author - Richard Murray
Aren't we supposed to read the Bible literally, "precept upon precept, line upon line?" No. In fact, is the way we're NOT to read the Bible. In fact, the Bible warns us on its face not to so read it. There is a well known teaching ministry...
Feb 26, 2021 | Author - Richard Murray
The book of Revelation is full of oxymorons. The question is why?An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which “contradictory terms appear in conjunction. It’s more commonly known as a ‘contradiction in terms.'” (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true...
Nov 3, 2020 | Author - Richard Murray
Something has been troubling me for some time about Progressive Christianity and its way of expressing its ideas. I recently got some clarity on what is the problem.Progressives (with some notable exceptions) don’t emphasize (at all) wanting to know, declare, or share...
Apr 24, 2018 | Author - Richard Murray
Patristic Universalism "Patristic Universalism" (aka Apocatastasis), to which I subscribe, believes that one must be spiritually reborn to enter the kingdom of Heaven, and that this rebirth comes solely from an extension of interpersonal faith in Jesus...
Apr 10, 2018 | Author - Richard Murray
The day I removed the terms "force" and "coercion" out and away from my image of God's character, and replaced them with "wooing" and "influence," so many things began to change for me spiritually. I stopped viewing...
Feb 8, 2018 | Author - Richard Murray
If nothing else, Law School taught me to be intellectually honest about the text of the law–what the text might mean, what it could mean, what it shouldn't mean, and how its various applications could be evolved by engaging it as an open rather than a closed...
