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Why fish was early Christianity’s most important symbol (opens the original)
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I was at a noisy wedding reception last year, and the woman sitting next to me asked about the design on the ring on my right hand. Both her arms were completely tatted, psychedelically colored, with more individual images than it would be proper for anyone but her husband to count. I shouted that the face of my ring showed an anchor, a symbol of the Trinity — and the most common image used in inscriptions and graffiti in the Roman Catacombs. She pursed her lips in excitement. “Ooh,” she said. “
How can suffering be part of God's plan for us? (opens the original)
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I’ve heard countless testimonies of people who impulsively prayed to God: “I’d like to get closer to you” and then found themselves visited with plagues and trials. The moral of the story is always the same: in the end, amid the suffering, they drew near to God, and they came to know a much deeper happiness. I believe them all, and their witness confirms everything I’ve been told about God’s providence. But I confess that my pain-avoidance mechanism kicks in very early in my hearing of such stor
The Marcion idea to separate Christianity from Judaism is a dangerous precedent (opens the original)
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Marcion of Pontus was one of the most dangerous men in Christian history — and one of the most fascinating. He arrived in Rome around the middle of the second century, the son of a bishop from Pontus on the southern coast of the Black Sea. He was wealthy, brilliant, disciplined, and utterly convinced that the Church had misunderstood the Gospel. Christianity, he believed, could not be reconciled with the religion of ancient Israel. The God of the Old Testament was a deity of law, wrath, judgment
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