Foster's Theological Reflections

"As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had b...

Philosophers of mind wonder if mental properties can be reduced to neural states. For instance, is it possible to reduce my perception of re...

In light of recent discussions here about divine and human perfection, I want to offer scriptural evidence that Christ was a perfect human. ...

Joseph Kelly, who has written a book on the origins of Christimas, also states: "Many Romans venerated the sun, whose birthday was De...

One cannot talk about the biblical concept of perfection without including God's perfection. Even Matthew 5:48 mentions God prior to giv...

ESV renders Psalm 104:15, "and wine to gladden the heart of man," but I understand this usage of "heart" to be figurati...

Revelation 1:16, 2:21-23; 9:7-9; 11:7; 12:1-17; 13:7; 14:19-20; 16:13-16; 19:11-21; 20:1-10. David Aune's Remarks on Revelation 19:11:...

There is a literary phenomenon that appears in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) known as parallelism. A simple way to explain the subject is...

1. She gave birth to a male child who is to shepherd all the nations “with a rod of iron”. Her child was snatched up to God and to his thr...

Why did Jehovah replace unfaithful Judas but not the faithful disciple James when he was martyred? Jesus' apostles fill an important r...

There's a question about the status of Aquinas' five ways to "prove" God's existence. Are they really proofs after all...

Before answering the question concerning Jesus and whether he practiced voluntary poverty or not, some important distinctions need to be mad...

Perfect in the appropriate sense of the word is not that hard to define or understand within a biblical context. Something/someone can be ab...

One problem with Elaine Pagels is her controlling ideology that's superimposed on the Gnostic Gospels (i.e., feminism); in my estimation...

Mounce writes: The heavenly city has no need of sun or moon to shine because it is illuminated by the glory of God. Isaiah had pictured th...

It's commonly agreed that we can't have theologic without logic itself. Theology usually is defined as "the doctrine of God...

Many Trinitarians attempt to argue that Acts 2:21 is proof of Christ's deity. However, the context (Acts 2:22ff) suggests otherwise--nev...

A dear friend I knew some years ago, now deceased, used to tell me that she felt Jehovah sets precedents (always?) before he acts. I don...