Commenting on Jeroboam's fear of orthodoxy (represented by the house of David and the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, in 1 Kings 12), "that is, orthodoxy focused on a royal person and on an atoning place" Dale Ralph Davis has this stellar footnote:
We rightly trace this person-place scheme straight into New Testament orthodoxy. David's dynasty reaches its crescendo in that rascal Rehoboam's premier descendant, Jesus the Messiah (hence Christology is at the heart of orthodoxy); and Yahweh's temple, where, as Jeroboam stated, they 'make sacrifices', was therefore the place where atonement was made and reaches its fulfilment in the cross.
Orthodoxy revolves around person and place, around Christ and the cross, or, as we might put it, around the person and work of Christ. It is this area of belief that false religion invariably skews.
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Just imagine working with people who yet live in a world that has not moved for 50 years. Counseling in Wollongong is a different challenge.
Just imagine working with people who yet live in a world that has not moved for 50 years. Counseling in Wollongong is a different challenge.
I just known and read this article. It is really annoying if I was alive at that period. The people and the environment is not that good. They are really religious. I mean, I have also some faith and beliefs but I cannot live like the way people lived at that period.
Miley
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I am not so devoted enough to be in this environment. I do believe in God, but I cannot really devoted myself with their beliefs which are their nature already.
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