James Jordan

The Unoffical Twitter of the Theologian who taught us to see the Bible Through New Eyes.

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The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

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“n Jesus Christ, humanity is put back on the track, the track of making a God-glorifying world. -James B. Jordan

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Such a reduction was not the view of the Protestant Reformers, who sought to correct the magical views of the Papal Church, without denying that God really acts through such material means. Jordan, James. Creation in Six Days, pg. 73.

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God’s affirmation of the material world is seen in the fact that He uses physical water to introduce people into His kingdom, and by the fact that we eat Christ’s flesh and drink His blood in the Lord’s Supper. Many Christians, however, cannot embrace such physical ideas.

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Water baptism, is thus reduced to a mere symbol instead of a powerful communication from God, and so are the bread and wine of the Supper.

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Meyers shows how certain theological distortions like transubstantiation caused the practice to fall away in the Western church as well as how to make distinctions between baptized members and voting members.
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Individualistic Gnosticism focuses only on the souls of believers & looks only to salvation in the next world. Communal Gnosticism goes one step further & calls on Christians to forsake society for a separate community within this world... - James B. Jordan

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"God's personality is fully displayed in the world, but it is easy for us to become deaf to this fact." - TNE
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"...the Christian view of the world is and can only be fundamentally symbolic...the world exists as a revelation of God." - TNE, 23
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“We have to read and study the Bible, immersing ourselves in its worldview, and then we will be able to discern valid symbols and allusions.”

[James Jordan @JBJ_BHMaster]

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in the rich and compact language of symbolism and art. - TNW, James B. Jordan

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During this interim period, the Bible had not been completed and it was not clear what the new order in the Church was to be like. The Spirit was bringing that new order into being. -James B. Jordan

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These verses do not command women to wear hats or head coverings in church. The rule applied only to praying and prophesying, not to hearing sermons, singing, eating the Supper, etc. -James B. Jordan
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Prophecy has ceased, and it is very likely that the praying spoken of in Corinthians 11 here was praying in tongues, which has also ceased. Thus, these rules in their strict sense applied only to the interim Church. -James B. Jordan

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Your first cultural history is the history of the church.

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"The liturgy is a ballet we do before the throne of God and he is the audience." - James B. Jordan
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Music enhances ideas and words or creates moods, but it does not communicate words or ideas by itself.
-Lectures on Music

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