How Romans 9-11 (and Romans 8) Make Me Arminian
Calvinism doesn't have a monopoly on Romans 9-11. Here's an Arminian approach.
Search
Matt O'Reilly
- May 21, 2021
- 2 min
New RBL review of Paul and the Resurrected Body
Reviews are starting to come in for Paul and the Resurrected Body: Social Identity and Ethical Practice (SBL Press). In particular, Chris...
28 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
Paul and the Cultivation of Multi-Ethnic Churches
Paul's hope for future bodily resurrection functions to cultivate a shared identity among the recipients that is ethnically inclusive.
27 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
Severed from Christ: Falling Away in 1 Corinthians 6
Can Christians lose their salvation? Here's why 1 Corinthians 6 indicates that they can.
366 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 5, 2018
- 3 min
No Redemption without Resurrection
God Loses If there is no bodily resurrection, sin wins and God loses. God did not design human beings to die. All through scripture death...
1 view0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 3, 2018
- 2 min
Heaven Is Not Enough
Dissatisfied with Heaven So what are they waiting for? To answer that question we need to look more closely at their appeal. Their...
7 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 19, 2017
- 1 min
New Post: Resurrection Makes Us Holy (@OfficialSeedbed)
During my recent trip to Wilmore, Kentucky, I had the opportunity to film another episode for Seedbed‘s growing Seven Minute Seminary...
1 view0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Feb 12, 2016
- 1 min
The Resurrection and Christian Identity (@sowhat_podcast)
The newest episode of the SoWhat? Podcast aired earlier this week. This one is part 2 of a discussion about the resurrection of Jesus in...
0 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Jan 25, 2016
- 1 min
The Resurrection in the Creed, Part 1 @sowhat_podcast
The newest episode of the So What? Podcast went live today. This one is in two parts, and the topic is one of my favorites. That’s right:...
0 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Dec 14, 2015
- 1 min
Moltmann on the Immortal Soul vs. Bodily Resurrection
From The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology: The immortality of the soul is an opinion – the resurrection of the dead is a hope. The...
1 view0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 9, 2015
- 4 min
Easter Means Mission
Our celebrations of Christ’s resurrection at Easter tend to be narrowly focused. The focus, all too often, drills down onto the...
0 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 1, 2015
- 1 min
Here’s My New Seven Minute Seminary: Resurrection and the Christian Afterlife (@OfficialSeedbe
Here’s the latest installment of Seedbed’s Seven Minute Seminary series in which I discuss several questions related to life after death,...
0 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 20, 2014
- 2 min
Athanasius on the Resurrection
Today is Easter Sunday. Where better to turn than On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius? This is one of those books that I keep coming...
1 view0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 18, 2014
- 1 min
Resurrection is Everything (@OfficialSeedbed)
My latest guest post for Seedbed went live this morning. Here’s the intro: “Why celebrate Easter?” That’s an honest question that was put...
0 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Jan 21, 2014
- 3 min
Will God Destroy Our Bodies?
That’s what several standard Bible translations would have you think. The verse in question is 1 Corinthians 6:13a, and it turns out that...
1 view0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Oct 15, 2012
- 4 min
Review: Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction
The first two chapters introduce the reader to the various attitudes toward death and afterlife in the Old Testament and other ancient...
2 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Jul 17, 2012
- 1 min
The Dual Focus of the Resurrection
For Paul, the historicity of the resurrection of Christ and its “bodily” character are crucial. The historicity of the resurrection...
9 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- May 18, 2012
- 2 min
Imagining Resurrection
These questions and more have abounded for centuries; indeed, such questions are anticipated by the scriptures. In 1 Corinthians 15:35,...
0 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- May 14, 2012
- 1 min
Catching a Fresh Vision of Faith
Read the rest of this post offering four brief reflections on faith at Seedbed. _____ Image: Janaka Dharmasena/FreeDigitalPhotos.net...
0 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 8, 2012
- 1 min
Easter Hymn
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Your sweetest notes employ The Paschal victory to hymn In strains of holy joy. How Judah’s Lion burst his...
0 views0 comments
Matt O'Reilly
- Apr 4, 2012
- 1 min
Incarnation and Incorruption
“Thus, taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to the corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death in...
0 views0 comments