Bob Brinsmead

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Bob Brinsmead
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Theology

The Doctrine of Christ and the Triumph of Hellenism

The assignment of names and the arrangement of the New Testament writings are misleading.
Scholars agree…most of the writings of the New Testament were either written anonymously and later assigned to a person of the past or written later as a pseudonym for some person thought to have been important for the earliest period. Striking examples of the latter are the two letters said to have been written by Peter, both of which are clearly second-century creations.

Biography

A Story of the Promised Land

Australian poet, Andrew Barton (Banjo) Patterson, tells the story of the old pioneer who says to his kids,

“There is one Bible story I fully understand.
It’s how those ancient patriarchs lived upon the land.”

Just so, I venture to say,

There is a Bible story I fully understand,
It’s how the early Hebrews found the Promised Land.

Here’s my real-life story about finding the Promised Land. It has given me an insight into the greatest human story ever told – the story of the Hebrews’ flight from Egypt (the Exodus) and their subsequent settlement in the Promised Land of Palestine.