Gods Own Words

Graced Punishment‍

Jacob Chanikuzhy Though Christians have four canonical gospels in their New Testament, what is known as the “first gospel” is not in the New Testament. It is Genesis 3:15 in the Old Testament that the Christian theology celebrates as the proto evangelium or the first gospel. In this text we have

Chronicle of the Fall

Jacob Chanikuzhy Eve’s reply to the question of the Serpent whether God told them not to eat from any of the tree is interesting. She answered the serpent that they are not allowed even to touch the forbidden fruit. Actually God did not tell them that they should not touch. Eve was exaggerating… The exaggeration […]

Chronicle of the Fall-I

Jacob Chanikuzhy Once the discussion begins on the Fall, there is no dearth of questions and imaginative answers. Fantasy knows no bounds when it comes to explain the sin of Adam and Eve. The staunch supporters of Eve believe that she had a noble reason than that of Adam to eat the fruit of the […]

A Shamelessly Partial God…

Jacob Chanikuzhy Benjamine Rousewet has this to say about the rectification of the imperfections of the civil courts: “No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.” But, what if the supreme judiciary itself is […]

Seeing God’s Face and Being Meek

Jacob Chanikuzhy Fyodor Dostoevsky writes, “Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.” It is very true when we look at the major prophets of Israel. All of them suffered a brutal death at the hands of their opponents. Prophet […]

The One Present in the Absence

Jacob Chanikuzhy Perhaps, we humans are more happy about arrivals than departures. In general we do not like “good-byes.” No wonder, we celebrate Christmas (the coming of Jesus) with greater solemnity than ascension (the “departure” of Jesus). However, for Luke, the ascension of Jesus was so important that he described it twice: In the gospel […]

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