Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ is a giant Gnostic snake and worships the deity of evolution – Karl Barth (November 1, 2019)

Karl Barth wrote two famous letters in August 1963 wherein he condemned Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1881 – 1955) as a "giant gnostic snake" that has swallowed up Jesus Christ in order to worship the "deity of evolution", and that Emil Brunner is a "harmless blind-worm" in comparison to […]

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Wolfhart Pannenberg on Why the Historical Adam was Mortal before the Fall  (September 2, 2017)

Was the Historical Adam ever immortal? Wolfhart Pannenberg says that if we look closely at the biblical text, then we will discover that the answer is no! Pannenberg believes that the Fall caused a shortening of human life, but this does not mean that humanity was ever immortal before the […]

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