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build your own jesus?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1743, 28th December, 2009
There are, in a variety of places, little “Build a Bear” enterprises. They work like this: You go to a vender of build-a-bears, and the vender shows you an assortment of bear parts, which you are then free to put together into your own bear, and you pay the vender for this. That’s right. The [...]
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get behind me, satan! how sometimes jesus smacks us in the face (so to speak)

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2103, 16th December, 2009
The passage I’m about to speak about is a passage which is very controversial between Protestants and Catholics. I’ll bet you can figure out my position on that. But what I want to look at is another angle of what’s being said in the text, about Peter as a person, and how that applies to [...]
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beyond the canon list

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0138, 7th December, 2009
It would be nice to say that once we’ve got Jesus and the canon settled, that’s the end of the story. And it would be partially true. If you read the books of the Bible, no matter what translation they are in (unless it is by some sort of weird group purposefully altering the text), [...]
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about the bible

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2256, 6th December, 2009
In the last post, I stated how Jesus Christ’s actual death and resurrection are the basic assumption that I will hold to throughout my writing.  Hand in hand with the truth of the story of Jesus, I believe in the inspiration of the Bible.  That is, I believe that, somehow, the words written in the [...]
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the single foundational truth of christianity

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2017, 6th December, 2009
There is at the very basis of Christianity, (and therefore at the very basis of my blog), one single truth: that Jesus Christ is the son of God, sent to the earth to die, and then that he was raised from the third day. Whether Jesus was really raised is the central question of Christianity. [...]
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