Marbaniang, Domenic

Download All India Radio Shahdol Kendra Year: 2003 Speaker: Rev. R. Venkata Rao Paulus Language: Hindi Title: Good Friday Ka Mahatva

Excerpts from unfinished rough draft of a writing project at Seminary, 2000 Thanatology (the study or science of death) is a vast subject; its literature incorporating a motley of massive corpus with a time span of above five thousand years. In Christian theology, it is treated under the division of Eschatology (the study or science of Last Things). Though, evidently, a significant subject, thanatology is, ironically, one of the least non-debatable subjects of the world. This is understandable, knowing that it is also one of the least verifiable disciplines of all disciplines. And yet, it is a significant one. It is significant because of the psychological problems it addresses like the shock of bereavement or loss of a beloved one, the instinct of survival, the curiosity concerning the future, or the unknown, etc. It is also significant because of the philosophical 1 and theological problems it addresses like ,“Why is there the phenomenon of death,” “Why is there such a morbid fear o...

Excerpts from draft of unfinished writing project at Seminary, 2000 Thanatology (the study or science of death) is a vast subject; its literature incorporating a motley of massive corpus with a time span of above five thousand years. In Christian theology, it is treated under the division of Eschatology (the study or science of Last Things). Though, evidently, a significant subject, thanatology is, ironically, one of the least non-debatable subjects of the world. This is understandable, seeing that it also is one of the least verifiable disciplines of all disciplines. Yet, it is a significant one. It is significant because of the psychological problems it addresses like the shock of bereavement, the instinct of survival, fear of future, anxiety, etc. It is also significant because of the philosophical and theological problems it addresses, viz., “Why is there the phenomena of death,” “Why is there the fear of death,” and “Is there life after death: If yes, of what nature?” Its signi...

Download All India Radio Shahdol Kendra Year: 2001 Speaker: Rev. R. Venkata Rao Paulus Language: Hindi Title: Good Friday Ka Mahatva

Definition The word “theology” means the Science of God or the Study of God. It is the religious systematization of such beliefs as that involve God and the viewing of the universe with such a theology of God. Thus, it also involves every such doctrine in the universe that streams from or streams towards God, e.g., anthropology, soteriology, etc. Basically, it is the study of the divine things. Ground Deciding a starting point for theology is often dilemmatic. Should it be Scripture, nature, experience, or God Himself? The theologian attempting to develop a systematic treatment of Christian theology early encounters a dilemma regarding the question of starting point. Should theology begin with the idea of God, or with the nature and means of our knowledge of him? In terms of our task here, should the doctrine of God be treated first, or the doctrine of Scripture?” [1] The dilemma is more intensified by the intrusion of evidentialism, which may even endanger the concept of absolute God....

1. Sinlessness of Christ. The sinful nature was absent from His human nature. 2. Divinity. The Virgin Birth made Incarnation possible or else He'd have been a mere human. 3. Uniqueness. Not as Hercules, having 2 fathers, on divine, one human. 4. Miraculous. The supernaturalness of the event. Not natural. 5. One Person. 2 Natures but one person. If born of a human father and mother then a new person (dual personality is contradictory) 6. Divine Act. Prophesied beforehand by Isaiah.

I am convinced that we can trust the Bible: trust it as the true revelation of God. The pluralism of “revelations” calls for the exercise of the law of non-contradiction. The modern relativistic, pluralistic mood looks at the Bible as another “truth”. But the fact is that there can never be an absolute infrastructure for relative truth. They always differ in their infrastructure though the superstructure might appear to be the same. The trustworthiness of the Bible is a very important issue, since it addresses issues of ultimate concern: Theology, Cosmology, and Teleology (purpose, salvation). And it supercedingly differs from other “revelatory” sources. Either the Bible is true or false; it is either trustworthy or non-trustworthy. How do we know if we can trust the Bible, then? The Philosophical Test of Internal Consistency. In depth study shows that the Bible is never self-contradictory or self-defeating. As a matter of fact, though the books of the Bible were written over a time ...