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All Blog Posts With Tag: Apostles Creed
Karl Barth’s Argument Against Afterlife (October 8, 2015)
Does Karl Barth believe in an afterlife? Barth answers Nein! Barth says that believing in an afterlife is "pursuing pagan dreams of good times after death" and that the New Testament teaches that time comes to an end on the last day at the "final trump", when "time shall be no more." Karl Barth's argument […]
Karl Barth: We Believe in Eternal Life, not in Eternal Hell (May 22, 2015)
The Apostles' Creed is among the oldest universally accepted symbols of the Christian faith. In Karl Barth's commentary on the Apsotles' Creed, he observes that there is no mention of Satan, Hell or Eternal Death in the Apostles' Creed, there is only mention of Eternal Life. And although this creed mentions […]
Jürgen Moltmann’s Proposed Additions to the Creed (December 30, 2014)
~ Updated on 12 December, 2018 ~
The Apostles' Creed does not say anything about Jesus' life after he was 'born of the Virgin Mary' until he was 'crucified under Pontius Pilate'. The other great Christian symbol, the Nicene Creed, likewise does not inform us of the person and work of Jesus […]
Wolfhart Pannenberg is famous for seconding Emil Brunner's rejection of the Virgin Birth as a late accretion into the New Testament. The question immediately arises, "How can anyone reject a statement in the Apostles' Creed?" The short answer is that Pannenberg affirms the Apostles' Creed, but with some revision in […]