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Andrew Rillera

3 months

New podcast interview with @gravity_commons on my book Lamb of the Free is out! (see tweet below) "This is probably the best [theological] book I've read in the last yr"- @matttebbe . Wow. Thank you for the high praise!

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Andrew Rillera

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2 years

Quote so good it belongs in the Bible.

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Andrew Rillera

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9 months

A first: I was asked in class today by what authority I have to “just disagree with leading biblical scholar, Ken Ham” 😑

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There’s no way the same person wrote all those “Taylor Swift” albums. ~biblical scholars in 1,000 yrs probably bUT tHe sTyles AnD lYrIcS ArE sO DiFfeReNt

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Andrew Rillera

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11 months

_Lamb of the Free_ has an official cover!

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1 year

Yikes. Here we go again. NT scholars, we still got a lot work to do.

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5 months

Penal substitutionary atonement says that Jesus’s crucifixion is him suffering the wrath/justice of *God* toward humanity. But the NT says otherwise. Jn 3:16; 1 Jn 3:16; 4:9–12; Rm 5:8; 8:35, 37, 39 all say the cross is an act of God's *love.* "But wait! There's more!" 🧵

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Andrew Rillera

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2 years

Sorry to be biblicist & therefore a curmudgeon, but only time will tell if this Asbury "revival" is actually worthy of the name or if it is just futile navel gazing. If/when they start pleading the cause of the afflicted & needy w one voice, then I'll believe they "know" God.+

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Guys I need help. I have friends who can’t find a single speech in Acts of a clear Gospel presentation—after 2 millennia of Bible reading. Surely if Acts is inspired it should speak abt Jesus’ substitutionary death & mention “atonement”! Y is all the focus on the resurrection!?

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Andrew Rillera

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2 years

Paul: A *pornos*, one who practices *porneia* (sexual immorality), “will not inherit the kingdom” (1 Cor 6:9–10; cf. Gal 5:19–21). So that unrepentant Corinthian pornos is a goner (5:1)? P: Well, his flesh will be destroyed, but he'll be "saved in the day [of judgment]" (5:5).

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Andrew Rillera

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I don’t know why some think it’s so implausible that Paul would be a universalist, as if the notion first arose after him w Origen or something…even though it’s also found in Second Temple Jewish texts that predate Paul & he consistently makes explicit universalist claims…

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Andrew Rillera

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1 year

Y'all know I'm a big fan of @bibleproject @timmackie & although "The City E7" & series r great, this episode (see QT) misses a significant point re Joseph. 🧵on y I think Joseph's famine response (Gn 41:33–56, 47:13–26) is an example of exactly what *not* to do per the Torah.1/

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3 years

I am PhDefended PhDr. Rillera PhDONE!!

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Andrew Rillera

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9 months

(I wasn’t even singling Ken Ham out when I was teaching on Gen 1 & 2. I was just giving them some John Walton and @bibleproject stuff and these two students were not having any of it.)

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The irony of evangelicalism is that those of us who followed the supposed evangelical method for theology (grammatical-historical exegesis) exegeted ourselves right out of evangelicalism. 1/

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Andrew Rillera

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2 years

The rescinded endorsements for @butlerjosh 's Beautiful Union reveal something abt the evangelical industrial complex that many already knew/suspected: they r so thoroughly anti-intellectual that they don't even read each other's drivel. They just grift off vibes.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

10 months

I warned them. I warned them. I warned them. I told my students that if they use AI/ChatGPT the essay would be crap. What do u know? The one that is flagged as 92% AI merits only a 45/100 *on content alone* bc it fails to satisfy the rubric. I. Warned. Them.

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Andrew Rillera

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2 years

Everyone needs to know that founding fundamentalist James Orr's essays in _The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth_ (1910–1915) deny YEC & affirm evolution. Ch 11 "The Early Narratives of Genesis" & ch. 18 "Science and Christian Faith.” Here's my lecture slides on this:

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Andrew Rillera

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1 year

It’s here! Preorder _Lamb of the Free_ below. So surreal. I’m so grateful for everyone in my life that has made this possible. Special thanks to @wipfandstock @MattThiessenNT @MadisonPierce @paulthomasloan @christilling @JordanW41069857 @ProfDCampbell

Lamb of the Free- Wipf and Stock Publishers

Lamb of the Free analyzes the different sacrificial imagery applied to Jesus in the NT in light of the facts that (a) there is no such thing as substitutiona...

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

6 months

I finally got to hold Lamb of the Free in the flesh! (And sign my first copy for @TheKingsUPrez !)

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

2 years

On "biblical manhood & womanhood": I'm rereading Susan Hylen's article on women διάκονι in 1 Tim 3. It's amazing how even tho the cultural norms viewed women as "inherently inferior to men"...

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Andrew Rillera

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10 months

I wish I had thought about putting it this simply before finalizing Lamb of the Free, but the cross is *not* Jesus suffering the wrath/justice of *God* toward humanity, but rather Jesus suffering the wrath/injustice/enmity of *humanity* toward God! That's what I'm getting at here

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Based on the replies here it appears Acts 17:28–29 got erased from some people's Bibles. But it's there. I promise. "'For we are even children of God.' Therefore being children of God..."

Joash Thomas

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Jenna’s honest response here explains so much about why American evangelicalism is so broken. When you only see people who meet your description of ‘Christian’ as “children of God” and forget that “God so loved *the world*”, you end up with theology that sees God as a wrathful,

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Andrew Rillera

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Lamb of the Free is here!!

H.L.Griffin- #ACNAtoo I NOPE because I hoped

@hlgriffin

7 months

I preorderd @AndrewRillera 's "Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus's Death" a while back & it unexpectedly arrived today. I am so proud of my Philo buddy, even tho I don't understand how he had headspace for this after thinking about Philo.

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Andrew Rillera

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4 years

I am so excited and thankful to officially announce that I have accepted an offer from The King’s University ( @TheKingsU ) for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology. #NotAprilFools

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Andrew Rillera

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1 year

If Jesus’s death is substitutionary because it’s “for” (Greek: hyper) us, then so is his resurrection bc it’s also “for” (hyper) us in 2 Cor 5:15. But we all know saying “Jesus was raised as my substitute so that I don’t have to be” is 100% false. Same with his death.

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1 year

A reminder on the Lord’s Day: Jesus did not die *instead* of us; he died *ahead* of us.

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Andrew Rillera

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If you're going to read the Bible as a "unified story" as a Christian at least ground that in the "metanarratives" w/in the NT: eg, Col 1:15–20; Rom 5:12–21; John 1:1–18; 1 Cor 15:21–28; 2 Cor 5:14–21. Fair warning: You'll end up a supralapsarian universalist if u go this route.

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Andrew Rillera

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What conservative evangelicals want is not only to reify the patriarchal & misogynistic view that women are "inherently inferior to men," but they also want to bar them from any leadership capacity. They literally want life for women to be *worse* than it was is in the 1 C.

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Andrew Rillera

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Oh ya? My next book argues that Paul actually wrote all 27 New Testament texts sooo...

trust the abyssinian 𓃠 🥥🌴

@mikeywaters3

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Cambridge University Press picking up the dutch radical model (zero verifiably authentic pauline letters)

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That whole “context is king” motto really sealed evangelicalism’s own death bc there were too many evang Millennials that took that seriously, got Masters and Doctorates in biblical/theological studies & realized evangelicals actually don’t know anything abt “biblical context.”

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Andrew Rillera

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2 years

The key premise in non-universalist accounts (“soft” or “hard”) of hell is that there is no possibility of repentance/salvation after death. But this can’t be anchored in Scripture, while the exact opposite can be (1 Pet 4:5–6 & 1 Cor 3:12-15; 5:5; Rev’s open gates) & +

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**Just in case it’s not clear, the statement “There’s no Greek philosophy in any of those” is dead wrong. Thanks, N. T. Wight!

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Andrew Rillera

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2 years

And don’t forget Augustine who held to a non-literal 7-day creation too (De Genesi ad litteram 2.6.13; 2.14.28; 5.3.6; 5.5.12, 16; De Genesi ad litteram imperfectus liber 3.8; 7.28; 9.31; 11.34–35).

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8 months

One thing I’ve learned from Jesus is that “preventing misunderstanding” is the wrong goal. He wants to teach the curious. He’s fine w people misunderstanding him & even elicits confusion to draw in the curious & drive away the bad faith listeners. Don’t cast your pearls before 🐖

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3 years

Follow along for the ride as I explain my discomfort with Penal Substitutionary Atonement exegetically over the next several days. Thanks @christilling for asking me to write all this up.

Chris Tilling

@christilling

3 years

And so it begins. Pt 1 of the @AndrewRillera essay pushing against claims made by @mbird12 on penal substitutionary atonement

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Andrew Rillera

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@realDonaldTrump You are taking an experimental cocktail from Regeneron, a company which Pro-Lifers ought to condemn by their own standards as satanic and murderous because it uses, in their own words their website, “human embryonic stem cells...created solely through in vitro fertilization.”

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Andrew Rillera

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8 months

⚠️Update on Lamb of the Free release: It probably won’t be out until at least mid March 🫤. I’m very sorry to those who have graciously pre-ordered and were expecting a Jan release!! More details below.

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Andrew Rillera

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But, eg, overhearing the sex talk from these folks on here, they basically view wives as warm blooded blow-up-dolls. There's lot of marital abuse & rape going on. Don't want to tag & drag her into this, but follow @ sheilagregoire. She has done valuable work & reserach on this.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

3 years

Look what finally arrived!

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I teach a required Intro Bible course & I strive to make it accessible to all. I want curiosity sparked so they don't resent the requirement but also, hopefully, come to appreciate the learning experience. This student is not & didn't grow up Christian so this means a lot to me.

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Andrew Rillera

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6 months

The gospel Jesus proclaimed & established was Isaiah’s good news of release/debt forgiveness (Luke 4:18–19). The gospel of Jesus is not about “satisfaction.” Don’t be taken in by “another gospel” proclaiming a Cosmic Debt Collector.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

1 year

Good time for self-promo! Fun facts: Paul uses 2 profanities in Phil 3:2&8. The one below is well known. In English Paul says "shit." And when he calls people "dogs" in v2 he is calling them "cocks" in our equivalent slang. Here's a clip from my forthcoming article in JJMJS:

M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

@MAdryaelTong

1 year

@LBRolsky You seriously don’t understand the rhetorical purpose of profanity?! SERIOUSLY??? Lemme give you a hint. It’s the same reason the apostle Paul uses it here:

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Another exegetical nail in the coffin for Christian Nationalism: The verbs used w the "kingdom of God/heaven" in the NT r about "entering," "inheriting," "announcing," "proclaiming," etc. the kingdom; it is never something we "build," "make," "create," "bring" or "establish."

Andrew Rillera

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1 year

One exegetical nail in the coffin for Christian Nationalism is that both the destruction of unjust political systems & the establishment of the temple city of God are done “without human hands.” (Dan 2:34, 45; 8:25; 2 Cor 5:1; Heb 9:11, 24, 28 w 11:10, 16; 12:22; 13:14).

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Great ? to ponder. The cover is a section of the Ghent Altarpiece (& u can explain that as u see fit), but I'll take a crack re the points throughout the book. My kids are 13 & 11 now, but I'll use some of what I recall my wife & I talking w them about when they were younger.🧵

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My 3 year old asked if I could explain this artwork to her. Could you sum up your book in toddler-friendly terms @AndrewRillera ?

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Andrew Rillera

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ATTN Christians: Contextualizing Jesus's Sabbath disputes (eg,. Mark 2–3; Matt 12; Luke 6) is one way to stop perpetuating anti-Jewish exegesis rooted in historical ignorance. Did you know Jesus aligns w the same principles of prioritization in the Mishnah & Talmud re Sabbath?🧵

Andrew Rillera

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@paulthomasloan @JaymesLackey @jasonstaples @MattThiessenNT @lllogannnnn Re "overrides": Disputes like Matt 12 are just intra-Jewish disputes over proper *halakha* by discerning which mitzvah overrides others when in conflict. The dispute in Mt 12 isn't halakha vs no halakha; it's estab the halakhic legality of J's actions.

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Getting caught up in a rapture of music & prayer can v well happen when communing w a demon. If this is truly reviving the community's communion w the Xian God, then an explosion of "social justice" is about to happen (!!). Jeremiah 9:24; 22:15–16; Matt 25:31–46. May it be so.

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1 year

Jesus didn't die *instead* of us. He died *ahead* of us.

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If I say "*all* have sinned & are being justified as a gift by God's grace" you'd know I'm clearly a universalist, but if I point out that Paul said this in Rom 3:23–24, then it's suddenly "underdetermined/ambiguous."🧵

Andrew Rillera

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@hofferNTPhD @dburnett51 I think "blatant" accurately describes the claims here: Rom 3:23–24; 5:12–21; 11:28–32; 1 Cor 15:22, 28; 2 Cor 5:14–15; Phil 2:10–11; Col 1:20; 1 Tim 2:4, 6; 4:10; Titus 2:11; Eph 1:10, 23. How are these ambiguous?

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The gospel in one sentence: Jesus, Israel's Messiah, the one whom God resurrected as the firstborn from the dead, is the Lord over all creation in whom God demonstrates God's love because in him all things at enmity with God in heaven & on earth are being reconciled to God.

Bob Purvis

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@AndrewRillera @AndrewRillera What would be your “napkin” or “elevator” presentation of the Gospel? Especially in comparison/contrast to the gospel in this tweet?

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A reminder on the Lord’s Day: Jesus did not die *instead* of us; he died *ahead* of us.

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So much of Paul's theology is saying: Nothing u do or think merits salvation. Salvation is not conditioned or conditional on anything u do. But if u take this as a license for sin, then that only demonstrates that u have (yet) to partake in (a foretaste of) eschatological life.

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1 year

Apparently this is about something I wrote! Even if this is only half true, I’m grateful to have @christilling ’s endorsement for my book _Lamb of the Free_ with @wipfandstock !

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Or Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian. I mean, this never ends. There is no "pure" "Hebraic" or "Israelite" thought. Stop looking.

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Nothing better illustrates the inherent colonizing power in White Evangelical Christianity that when white exvangelical atheist scholars issue normative judgments abt what are & are not "legitimate" readings of the Bible to minoritized & marginalized groups. They keep colonizing!

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Andrew Rillera

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Key aspects of my practical & public political theology summed up by 3 biblical texts.🧵 Preamble: The governments of this world are not the Church, & the Church is not the government. In representative democracies, however, the government reflects the collective will of voters.

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@KimberlyRubin13 This is a required course at my institution so they have to take it eventually. But no matter who the prof is, none of us are buyin what Ken Ham is sellin.

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1 year

One way to conceptualize the telos of Christian life is that we are aiming to become Mary, learning to consent to have Christ be formed within us (riffing on Galatians 4:19).

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Andrew Rillera

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It’s a shame not a single gospel speech in Acts says anything abt Penal Substitution or sacrificial Atonement. Who’s going to tell the apostles they failed to preach the gospel!? What “amazes” me is that Xians actually think this 🗑 is the gospel when Acts is right there 📖.

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@KevinDr_ver

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Heresy is the final form of Reformed Theology

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Andrew Rillera

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1 year

Please read this terrific open access article from John Barclay. Really helpful reframing of Paul's Christological ethics. I'll be adopting his language of "self-with" (as a way to resist the self*less*-self*ish* polarity itself).

Logan Williams

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1 year

Answer: Nope. Sharp article deconstructing Michael Gorman’s misreading of Paul’s Christology and Ethics as essentially thematised by “cruciformity.” 💯💯💯

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You’re not going to like playing this game bc ironically those walls you speak of only have *open gates*: “her gates will never be shut” (Rev 22:25). Similarly, Ezekiel envisions eschatological Israel “all dwelling in places w/o walls & having no bars or gates” (Ezek 38:11).

Fito Padilla Vera

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@natgrace79 What if Jesus does care about walls. He said himself to John through the Angel: Revelation 22 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the

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the pagan culture "did not see the lower status of women as something that negated their capacities to serve as leaders." There were women in leadership positions both within and without the Church.

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@AndrewRillera

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Reformed Theobros: “I just read the Bible.” The Bible: “God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.” Rom 11:32 & “he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.” 1 John 2:2

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I did a thing. Thankful for The Bible Project having me on to discuss an article I thought would only ever be read by the peer reviewers :). It’s one of my life’s missions to dismantle racism by dismantling its supersessionist underpinnings.

Does the Church Supercede Israel? – Feat. Andrew Rillera

How can the book of Ephesians contribute to conversations surrounding modern race and justice issues? Tim and Jon interview New Testament scholar Andrew Rillera

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So you're saying everyone is judged according to their deeds, but the outcome of this judgment ultimately results in salvation even if all their deeds r like wood, hay, & straw? P: YES! The judgment is the final means God uses to purify us, making us fit for eschatological life.

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Lol. I literally rebutt this head on in my book. It might take reading and digesting the previous 267 pages to have the impact I hope it has, but here's the paragraph nonetheless. This comes at the end of my long subsection addressing Rom 3:25–26.

Ethan (Low Key Theology)

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This is such nonsense and I pray that this type of thinking is on its way out. I’m thankful for people like @AndrewRillera and others who are directly addressing this topic and showing the nonsense for what it is.

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Any Christians who think there are times when we (Xians) need to kill for God need to reflect on that fact that the apostle Paul, who knew a thing or two about killing for God, no longer killed for God after encountering the Crucified One. Militancy is anti-Christ.

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Oops. I think some new followers r getting the wrong impression...as if I'm saying every Pauline letter is authentic. Y'all, I think Paul was universalist & I just wrote a book that dismantles Penal Substitutionary Atonement. I'm not the conservative you're looking for!+

Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

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There’s no way the same person wrote all those “Taylor Swift” albums. ~biblical scholars in 1,000 yrs probably bUT tHe sTyles AnD lYrIcS ArE sO DiFfeReNt

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Proofs!! This one will be open access and published on 12/30! Come for why Philo is relevant to discerning the character/teaching of (some of) Paul’s opponents, stay for the penile polemics, diagrams, and slurs (from the Apostle himself)!

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PSA: Before u rush to dunk on Wolfe’s tweet yesterday re universalism, remember that universalism in the early church is basically “universal repentance.” Let’s not misconstrue early Xian universalism just for the lols.

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Curious that Jesus Christ himself doesn’t agree. He says the preservation & persistence of the Church across time & space depends on him alone, not our “bravery” (Matt 16:18). Even if worse comes to worst, he can use rocks (cf. Luke 3:8).

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Unless there is more bravery to stand up for what is fair and right, Christianity will perish

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My first podcast interview for Lamb of the Free just dropped with @wipfandstock

Andrew Remington Rillera / Sacrifice and Atonement in the Bible

Podcast Episode · Theology Mill · 05/14/2024 · 1h 24m

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Andrew Rillera

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The God revealed in Jesus Christ does not create creatures who are capable of falling into a disease that God can't—or won't—cure, heal, cleanse, & purge. Also, God saves us from *ourselves*, the Powers, and Sin & Death. God does not save us from God.

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IOW, modern evangelicals are better misogynists than ancient misogynists, especially because of their language games of some abstract "equality." Yet they add limits to what women can/should do *in the Name of Jesus* that the effing pagans didn't even dare to do!

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But what modern proponents of "biblical manhood & womanhood" want to do is pay lip service to male & female "equality" in some abstract sense, but can't even manage to dare "allow" women the very roles outright 1 C misogynistic cultures were willing to grant them.

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If ur a Xian who grew up evangelical & ur pastors gave expository “teaching” sermons emph context & used axioms like “context is king” or “a text w/o a context is a prooftext” & U sought teaching opportunities, & read NT Wright ur an ex-/deconstructing. evang/liberal/progg now.

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1 year

Man, some Christians really want to follow Jesus but only so long as it isn’t to the cross for co-crucifixion.

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@AndrewRillera

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P.S. I want to reiterate I think very highly of @bibleproject & esp @timmackie 's research & work! I assign a lot of their material for my classes. So don't read this as a dig at them. I'm grateful their careful work that simulates dialogue & brings us back to the Scriptures!

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Andrew Rillera

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@bibleproject This is relevant again (these are also the same slides these two students were walked through before they brought up Ken Ham):

Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

2 years

Everyone needs to know that founding fundamentalist James Orr's essays in _The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth_ (1910–1915) deny YEC & affirm evolution. Ch 11 "The Early Narratives of Genesis" & ch. 18 "Science and Christian Faith.” Here's my lecture slides on this:

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Andrew Rillera

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Denny Burk's essay arguing for Eternal Conscious Torment in _Four Views on Hell_ is embarrassingly bad. I can't even believe it was published. I would have solicited another contributor. I would give it a D only bc the grammar is fine.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

2 years

All the couple of “for Asbury skeptics, here’s my story” 🧵s all I read was “I was skeptical but when I got there *I* felt good.” When we get stories that look like Acts 2 & 5 where suddenly people’s pantries r getting filled & debts paid/forgiven, then we can call it revival.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

3 years

@MattThiessenNT Yes only if this is counts

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

3 years

Just a note that some of the most descriptive depictions of an ostensible postmortem “hell” from Jewish(-Xian) sources in the Second Temple period explicitly state that those in there could/would ultimately get out and be shown mercy.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

3 years

A working thought(s): God quite literally tolerates the presence of impurity in Leviticus. Impurity accumulates in the sanctuary & stays in the Holy of Holies all year long. There's only a brief moment when it is all purged (Yom Kippur) & then it's back to being impure.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

10 months

I love me some good ol’ fashioned Col 1, Eph 1, and Acts 3 universalism in church today!

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

2 years

I don't believe for a second these folks do anything other than cherrypick various things to give off the *impression* that they read. The jig is up. Y'all rn't doing "this" to actually learn. Ur just a marketing network that can't even stomach ingesting ur own vapid products.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

1 year

They just give lip service to the Bible to use it as a weapon for cultural & political supremacy. They treat the Bible as Israel treated the bronze serpent in the wilderness. What was originally designed to witness to God's salvation itself became an idol (2 Kgs 18:4). 3/

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

2 years

What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? Paul: HELL NO! DO YOU NOT KNOW ANYTHING!? ONLY SOMEONE WHO HASN'T IN FACT BEGUN THEIR ONTOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION INTO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST CAN EVEN ASK SUCH A THING!! ~Romans 6:1ff

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

1 year

This thread is so good. And I think one of the contributing factors here is that the Christianity they left behind was one that itself didn’t reckon w the fact that *everything* is formational. They function as if everyone is just the sum total of their “beliefs.” Since +

Trey Ferguson

@PastorTrey05

1 year

It is good to reckon with the fact that your spiritual formation has rendered you a bad neighbor. But if you do not reckon with the attitude your formation bestowed upon you, you will take it with you even after disavowing the community. You still gon be a bad neighbor. 6/7

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Andrew Rillera

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Did you know Jesus is sometimes *more strict* than the Pharisees when it comes to purity. E.g., in Matt 23:25–26 Jesus sides w Sadducees (& Qumran) over the lax Pharisees.

James F. McGrath

@ReligionProf

1 year

N. T. Wright's characterization of the Pharisees as the "religious right" of Jesus' time is inexcusably inaccurate, so much so that it is hard to explain how someone with his level of knowledge of ancient Judaism and Christianity could have made it.

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Andrew Rillera

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1 year

@LauraRbnsn They don’t bother to look under “recent dissertations”? Hey look, I’m also still on there. Funny cause I also never went to Duke.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

2 years

Since more r finding this, I’ll add Acts 2:41–47 & 4:31–35 for the #asburyrevival . The 1st 2 episodes of the Spirit filling the church lead immediately to meeting the material needs of others. This is instructive. What God has joined together let no “revival” separate.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

2 years

Holy smokes @SBLsite registration is expensive when you're no longer a student. I know I'm one of the lucky ones with a PD fund, but the registration cost itself is 40% of that fund. This has to be prohibitive for so many contingent scholars. Yikes.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

6 months

Can confessing creedal Christians please go learn the difference between "heresy" & "heterodoxy"?

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

3 years

I’m not doomscrolling, but I’m smashing that ♥️ on every post I see of those brave Russian anti-war protesters. This massive militia of peace is reason to have great hope for humanity. I’m hopescrolling.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

3 years

Baby dedications are just hydrophobic infant baptisms.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

9 months

Yes, which is why altho salvation is an ontological transformation, it is *not* predicated on achieving a certain level of transformation on this side of the eschaton in order to earn access to eschatological life. U can no more merit your resurrection as u can your first birth.

Trey Ferguson

@PastorTrey05

9 months

Good morning! Just wanted to let y’all know that the Love of God is in fact unconditional and not at all tied to your repentance, the Bible *does* say this (1 John 2:2 🌚), that love leads us to repentance & NOT vice versa (Romans 2:4 🌚), and that any other gospel is false 😊

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

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Slaves: There’s a whole lotta liberation in the Bible. Other oppressed groups: You know it! “Progressive” Academics: No. You’re not allowed to find liberation in the Bible. You’re reading the Bible wrong. Them: I’m going to be liberated through reading the Bible even harder.

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

1 year

Not one of the substantive critiques from folks like @sheilagregoire or @AlethiaWrites or @aimeebyrdPYW or @LauraRbnsn etc were saying anything close to sex "not being something you can talk about in public." @sheilagregoire talks about sex all the time! Come on!

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

1 year

Paul used to stone & hunt down heretics. But then he met the Crucified Lord & engaged his enemies w/ a pen instead. It wasn’t like he just happened to be fighting for the wrong team. The *violence itself*—that method of “purifying” the community—was part of what he repented of.+

Marissa Franks Burt

@MBurtwrites

1 year

But this part is not funny at all: “'Imagine the pastor today that had the stones to pick a fight & then slaughter 400 denominational leaders, slit their throats as a public event,' Driscoll said. 'That’s Elijah.'” 🚨📷 1/2

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

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P: The seed of Christ is already in all (Col 1:27) & God is in birth-pains until Christ is in fact formed in all (cf. Gal 4:19). Either the purifying waters of baptism unite us w Christ or the purifying fires of judgment will so in the end Christ will be "all & in all" (Col3:11).

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Andrew Rillera

@AndrewRillera

2 years

Even they know the content from their tribe isn't worth their time. And, if u won't read something from someone u "like" & r endorsing, the chances that u read anything *at all* is close to approaching absolute zero.

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