Although McDowell was an energetic skeptic and anti-traditional in his early years, there was still a credible defense and existentialist determination. In an illustrative release: after childhood disillusionment and early university anti-religious radicalism, he was annoyed with his misconduct and elevated his philosophy of opposition to a higher level. His religious beliefs are to appease the truth of the Messiah and to establish a firm life in turning the modern waywardness into a purposeful life. He questioned our strength in comparing scientific evidence with legal-historical verification: science is based on repeatable demonstrations, proving the same conclusions, and his view of less substantive metaphysics based on legal-historical invariance.
McDowell proposed such a proposition: What makes Jesus so different from Muhammad, Buddhism and Confucianism? According to his affirmation in John 5:16-18, Jesus is sacred, "My father works here, I work." [About the cure of the lame] When he said: "My father and I are a When he is, he equates himself to God. [John 10:30] Greek scholar, A.T. Robertson interprets "one" as neutral and not a person, but essentially. This definition of the nature of God is repeated in McDowell's definition of Jesus: omnipresent, omnipresent, omnipotent, self-existing and eternal.
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"However, McDowell's Jesus quality in the above ' proposition', the last sentence must be qualified to gain knowledge in knowledge or academic theory; because, ancient divinity and no It can't be one thing, ancient or modern omniscience and omnipresent are another thing. Jesus did not know when Parousia happened; this deficit eliminated omniscience. There is no doubt that many people in the heavens and the earth complex They are not aware of his divinity, crucified or resurrected - not to mention the upper Europeans, Asia, Africa, South American society, Tee-pee and Igloo residents of the North America, Pacific Islanders, and Australian Aboriginal wanderers. It was decided that this deficit eliminated omnipresentity. No, it was not a worldwide scene, but an isolated community event. Even the Roman emperor did not know, but in retrospect, although the incident occurred inside his own empire.
However, to be considered by responsible interpreters, any statement of the quality of Jesus-God is of course a strict opinion; any God's conclusions are only extracted from the tracks of personal conscience. Even so, in the historical expo, indirectly, as in many other events, Jesus established his divinity for fans of the first century through recorded contracts and declarations. But in John's case, it is Jesus' contempt for the Sabbath's work restrictions that have caused resentment and condemnation by the Temple authorities. Jesus was filled with the embarrassment of the principles of mosaic and opposition to the authority of the temple. He completed his prophecy of his doom and assurance, as a contender for the Messiah, and as a conditional for the throne.
McDowell exaggerated the omnipresent and omniscient qualities of the Messiah. In a small corner of the world, Messiah should not debut in isolation, creating a curiosity about omnipotence and omniscience in the rest of the world?
Regarding the authenticity of the Bible, McDowell believes that the mindset of the twentieth century is a natural suspicion of proposition unless they can be scientifically proven. Scholar F.F. is said to have proven the reliability and reliability of the Bible by Bruce and William Albright. The John Ryland papyri manuscript [A.D.130], Chester Beatty Papyri [A.D.155] and Bodmer Papyri II [A.D. 200] were found to support subsequent manuscript translation. The famous authority, Sir Frederick Kenyon, concluded: "The authenticity and general integrity of the New Testament books may be considered to be finalized." However, the historicality of law is defined as a smart faith, and its authenticity is only Confirmed in the duplicate document.
Then, as an interpreter, we may think that faith is a qualified tool with a legal history priority. This declaration ignores any requirement to limit humanitarian extension. With its simplistic nature, faith is not within the motto of science and law - history. Faith is an incompetent belief that shows indifference to semantic opposition. Under the tacit consent of traditionalist practices, anyone can declare the individual God as an ontological existence. In this regard, Immanuel Kant said in his inferred observation: "No one has the wisdom to deny the declaration of God of another person." Really! God's declaration is entirely private, and whether in the individual's mind two or three wise men can imagine the exact same God is the cause of controversy. In any case, when one tries to force a private divine character to be on another person, there is a lack of intellectuals. Therefore, we must conclude that the existence of God and the realization of the Messiah should be attributed to the law-historical claims, and can never be promoted to the decisiveness of science.
McDowell acknowledged that Parousia must "come here when the temple in Jerusalem is still standing." He does favor the Preterist discipline. This is important when we realized that the temple was destroyed in 70 AD and has not been rebuilt since then. Even if another one has been built [no reconstruction], it won't temple. The true Messiah relied on the temple that stood at the time to determine Parousia's conclusion. If Parousia does not have the purpose of Messiah in the first generations, then McDowell and other modernists are forced to admit one of two possibilities: either God is invalid or believer in modern faith. Parousia time frame!
When the most convincing Christian miniature enters the church building, he plays the role of existentialism. As Professor McDowell once said in response to a college student, when asked what constitutes a Christian, he said without thinking, "Anyone who walks into the church will become a Christian." McDowell The answer is, "When you walk into the garage, will you drive?" I think this is the greatest fact in the McDowell Expo.
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