Author: pilgrim
Rev. Brian’s Mere Christianity class
We’ve had Fr. Brian on Pints With Jack a couple of times now, but I don’t think I’ve shared a link to his current class on Mere Christianity:
PWJ: S4E35 – AH – “After Hours” with Brooke Medina
After seeing the tweet announcing her goal to be invited onto a podcast in 2021 to gush about C.S. Lewis, we invited Brooke Medina onto the show to do just that!
S4E35: “After Hours” with Brooke Medina (Download)
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Read moreWise Words on Wednesday: Kind Words
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
PWJ: S4E34 – TSL 17 – “Food, glorious food!”
Today we hear about one of the Seven Deadly Sins, gluttony. Screwtape talks about how this vice can be disguised so that it can go completely unnoticed by the patient!
S4E34: “Food, glorious food!” (Download)
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Read moreMusic Monday: The Hillbilly Thomists
Good Wednesday?
This past week I was responding to someone in the comments section of my blog and I came across an issue I hadn’t encountered before…
It turns out that some groups will argue that Jesus didn’t die on Good Friday, but on the Wednesday before. I’ve noticed this chiefly among Fundamentalists and Messianic Jews. The case is made from Jesus’ own words in Matthew’s Gospel:
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
Matthew 12:40
It is argued that in order for Jesus’ words to be true, we must work backwards three full days and three full nights from Resurrection Sunday. If we do this, we would conclude that Christ’s Crucifixion took place, not on Friday, but Wednesday:
Some of these folks will say that Christians of past generations simply made a mistake in placing the Crucifixion on Good Friday, but others go further, arguing that this was an attempt to Paganize Christianity (although, as is typical with such assertions, I’m rather at a loss as to what this achieves).
So, how might we respond to this claim?
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