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An Understanding of the Death of God

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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There are two common ways of thinking about the death of God. The first is what I will term the Altizerian understanding, so named after Thomas Altizer. It consists of the idea that God was an ontological reality. On this view, God could be conceived as a person, a being, a force, or whatever else. God, however, emptied himself and took on the form of man in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. He was then crucified and killed at Golgotha, the result of which was the literal death of God. The ontologically real God that we read about in the Hebrew scriptures expires upon the cross. Thus, God is dead.

The Two Greatest Commandments

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.”

— Matthew 22:37-40

Jesus plainly tells us that the two greatest commandments, on which all the rest of the law hangs, are to love God and to love our neighbor. Curiously, it seems that few have come to the realization that these two commandments really are one and the same. That is, we love God when we love our neighbor, and we ßlove our neighbor when we love God. There is no daylight between the two.

Toward a Rejection of the Virgin Birth

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Does the Bible teach the virgin birth? An examination and new reading of Matthew and Luke’s gospels.