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The Coming of Jesus: Revelation Fulfilled?

Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 31st December 2015 in Second Coming Series | Revelation,Second Coming,Preterism,apocalypse,armageddon,fulfilled prophecy,Return of Christ,Return of Jesus,Eschatology
Don’t let the title put you off, we’re about to go on a mad journey through the annuls of history and the Roman Empire, contrasting what John saw in his vision with what has already played out on the “world’s stage” and what we possibly have to look forward to! First though, let’s look at a little history concerning the book itself before delving into its contents. Why do this? For a couple of reasons really: one, Revelation has some dispute over the year in which it was written, which can impact on the interpretation. Two, at various points in early church history, the book was held in suspicion of being spurious and almost...
 

Is Halloween a Pagan Holiday?

Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 30th October 2017 in Halloween | halloween,all saints day,all hallows eve,early church,tradition,cultural and society,celebrations,festivals,holidays,holy day
...f look at history, Hallowe’en celebrations originally had nothing to do with anything remotely Celtic. As far as Irish and Celtic origins go, we have still in existence a few Irish sources from around 830 AD which tell us that there was a feast “of all the Saints of the whole of Europe” on April 20th (Martyrology of Tallaght) This should offer us some evidence that the Irish Christians celebrated All Saints Day (and the eve before) around the time of the original decree by Pope Boniface IV, as the news of the new date of November 1st had yet to reach Ireland from Rome. Plus there’s also evidence that the name “Samhain” didn’t appear until the 10th...
 

Christians and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 20th March 2020 in Coronavirus |
...alist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/ (infographic) https://patristics.info/cyprian-on-the-unity-of-the-church-intro.html http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050707.htm (Cyprian, On Mortality) http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0632.htm (Dionysius, Epistle 12: To the Alexandrians) https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-early-church-teach-coronavirus/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Cyprian http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250109.htm https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letters_of_Julian/Letter_22 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/solving-the-mystery-of-an-ancient-roman-plague/543528/ http://stretchtheology.com/christians-and-...
 

Does Easter Have Pagan Origins?

Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 22nd March 2021 in Easter | Easter,easter sunday,early church,church history,paganism,pagan roots,Ishtar,Eostre,fertility goddess
...cument in history mentions or gives credence to a goddess by this name. Even if Bede was correct and there was some minor and relatively unknown goddess associated with the Spring equinox, it’s a rather large leap to assume that the 8th century Christian Church was somehow influenced enough by European “paganism” to incorporate (or blend) the Eostre tradition into itself when the actual Easter/Pascha festival had been celebrated since the second century at the very least. If we look closer, the older root of the word Eostre simply means “East” or “dawn” in some other renditions, according to An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Este...
 

Should Christians get tattoos, and is it Biblical?

Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 31st August 2019 in Tattoos | tattoos,church history,Basil the Great,Leviticus,Old Testament
...today.com/history/2009/march/tattoos-of-cross.html https://www.tattoo.com/blog/history-christianity-tattoo-culture/ https://medium.com/@naileao/how-christians-made-tattoo-cool-in-ancient-rome-1b66ef35aa03 https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3793&t=NASB https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H3789&t=NASB https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Lexicon.show/ID/H2710/chaqaq.htm As close as a source as I can find for this Basil quote, and the quote from the Church Council, is from a book called: Tattoo history: a Source Book: an Anthology Of Historical Records Of Tattooing Throughout the W...
 

Great Lent: The Season of Fasting

Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 13th February 2016 in Lent | Lent,Easter,Fasting,Prayer,early church,early church fathers,paganism,pagan roots
...Fasting A spiritual and physical discipline If you are looking for a Lenten reading plan, make sure to check out my book, 40 Days with the Fathers: A Journey Through Church history, which will take you through the first 400 years of church history in forty days! Lent is upon us once again (according to Western tradition), and so I thought it’d be good to write something on the discipline of fasting, which is often neglected or overlooked in many Protestant churches. And much like any major holiday, there is the usual arguments and accusations about how it's all just pagan festivities with a "Christian mask". Easter is no different, and usually gets hit...
 
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