Opinion column Seven truths, and the greatest gift As we think about the approach of Easter, regular contributor James Knight presents us with seven fundamental truths that he has discovered in the bible. A friend of mine, a keen philosopher and atheist, asked me to state some truths that can be discovered by reading the Bible. In thinking about a response, I started thinking about what I consider to be the most profound truths I ve discovered from twenty years of reading scripture. I came up with a list of seven that I thought worth sharing. I m going to state my seven by assuming, sine qua non, the basic assumptions and understanding that underpin the reality in which scripture operates - namely, that there are only two principal categories of reality: God and everything else. That everything that isn t God is part of creation, and nothing that is created is on the same qualitative level as God. That God is tri-aspectual: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That our triune G
The Norfolk and Norwich Christian community website Opinion column A growing realisation of our need for God’s grace James Knight offers an explanation as to why the apostle Paul is often so self-deprecating when describing his own sinfulness. Recently I made a profound discovery about St. Paul that I thought worth sharing. Unless we carefully consider the dates in his timeline, it’s a profound observation that could be easily missed. But before we get to that, a more general observation is that the usual way to think of progression in our walk with Christ is to presume we start at a certain point in our life and get better as our journey progresses. In one sense this is true, and it should always be strived for. But there s something paradoxical about progress in that the better and wiser we become, the more we understand how short we fall and how much further we have to go.