Comments on: A review of Judas and the Gospel of Jesus. By Tom Wright. http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/10/08/a-review-of-judas-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-by-tom-wright/ Bill Muehlenberg's commentary on issues of the day... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:39:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bill Muehlenberg http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/10/08/a-review-of-judas-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-by-tom-wright/comment-page-1/#comment-14568 Bill Muehlenberg Mon, 07 May 2007 08:32:24 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/10/08/a-review-of-judas-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-by-tom-wright/#comment-14568 Thanks Steven It is a truism that every text without a context is a mere pretext. What is Paul arguing in Romans 7? He is discussing the problem of indwelling sin, and his longing to find victory in Christ – exactly what he says in the next verse (v. 25). There is absolutely nothing Gnostic about Christianity (if that is the point you are trying to make). The body and the physical world are good for many reasons: God created them. We will also have a resurrection body in the next life, along with a new heaven and a new earth. The incarnation implies just what the term says: God came in the flesh. So there is no problem at all with the passage you mention, and holding to a Biblical condemnation of Gnosticism. Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch Thanks Steven

It is a truism that every text without a context is a mere pretext. What is Paul arguing in Romans 7? He is discussing the problem of indwelling sin, and his longing to find victory in Christ – exactly what he says in the next verse (v. 25).

There is absolutely nothing Gnostic about Christianity (if that is the point you are trying to make). The body and the physical world are good for many reasons: God created them. We will also have a resurrection body in the next life, along with a new heaven and a new earth. The incarnation implies just what the term says: God came in the flesh.

So there is no problem at all with the passage you mention, and holding to a Biblical condemnation of Gnosticism.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch

]]> By: Steven Carr http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/10/08/a-review-of-judas-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-by-tom-wright/comment-page-1/#comment-14507 Steven Carr Sun, 06 May 2007 16:33:56 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/10/08/a-review-of-judas-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-by-tom-wright/#comment-14507 'In Gnosticism, the aim is to escape this evil material world.' Hence the writing of 'Who will rescue me from this body of death?' Steven Carr ‘In Gnosticism, the aim is to escape this evil material world.’

Hence the writing of ‘Who will rescue me from this body of death?’

Steven Carr

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