http://thechisholmsource.com To Empower Through Training and Researched Educational Material Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:35:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://thechisholmsource.com/homosexuality-clinical-realities/ http://thechisholmsource.com/homosexuality-clinical-realities/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:35:10 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=1364 http://thechisholmsource.com/homosexuality-clinical-realities/feed/ 0 http://thechisholmsource.com/third-temple-heresy/ http://thechisholmsource.com/third-temple-heresy/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 11:15:59 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=1340 An allied belief to date-setting that is all too popular amongst Evangelicals is the unbiblical view that before our Lord’s return a 3rd Jewish temple must be built and the sacrificial system restored. Respected researcher and specialist on prophecy, Grant R. Jeffrey argues this position in his 2007 book The New Temple and the Second Coming. On p. 88 Jeffrey says, “Daniel prophesied that the rebuilt Temple would serve as the center of Israel’s worship—complete…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/third-temple-heresy/feed/ 0 http://thechisholmsource.com/signs-of-the-end-re-reading-matthew-24-part-2/ http://thechisholmsource.com/signs-of-the-end-re-reading-matthew-24-part-2/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 23:37:42 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=1318 B. Matthew 24.15-28 1. What really is this ‘abomination of desolation’, spoken of by Daniel (9.26)1 ? 1.1 Popular explanation – Something idolatrous placed in the holy place of a rebuilt Temple=3rd Temple. Consider the practical and contextual problems associated with this interpretation. “..this injects a totally different temple into the midst of Christ’s prophetic discourse than the one concerning which the disciples inquired.”2 In the age of the new and better covenant why would…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/signs-of-the-end-re-reading-matthew-24-part-2/feed/ 0 http://thechisholmsource.com/signs-of-the-end-re-reading-matthew-24-part-1/ http://thechisholmsource.com/signs-of-the-end-re-reading-matthew-24-part-1/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 18:17:11 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=1309 A. Matthew 24. 1-14 We need to clarify the context and text of our Lord’s dramatic prophecy in Mt. 24.2; Mk. 13.2; Lk 21.6. Context – Admiration of the buildings of the Temple by the disciples “…and His disciples came up toshow Him the buildings of the temple.” (Mt. 24.1b; Mk. 13.1; Lk. 21.5) Text – “I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” (Mt. 24.2; Mk.…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/signs-of-the-end-re-reading-matthew-24-part-1/feed/ 3 http://thechisholmsource.com/second-coming-hype/ http://thechisholmsource.com/second-coming-hype/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 15:30:20 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=1229 So far I have seen in Florida two huge billboards with the alarming message that Jesus is coming back on May 21, this year. This kind of date-setting nonsense has been going on periodically for centuries and the culprits include some prestigious individuals and groups. Some of those who made confident prophecies about a date for Christ’s return and got it wrong are J.N. Darby, C.I. Scofield and Hal Lindsay. Date-setters had a field day…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/second-coming-hype/feed/ 1 http://thechisholmsource.com/consensual-sex-revisited/ http://thechisholmsource.com/consensual-sex-revisited/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:02:09 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=1275 “To be clear, our position is neither an endorsement nor rejection of homosexuality. Frankly, we do not care. How consenting adults choose to live their lives is none of our business.” (Jamaica Gleaner editorial, April 1, 2011) To some the above sentiment of the editorial is progressive, politically correct and defensible. To me it is dangerous and disingenuous. I say the editorial’s posture is disingenuous because it seems to reflect a neutral position about homosexuality…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/consensual-sex-revisited/feed/ 1 http://thechisholmsource.com/the-resurrection-engaging-mind-spirit/ http://thechisholmsource.com/the-resurrection-engaging-mind-spirit/#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:30:58 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/the-resurrection-engaging-mind-spirit/ Any analysis of the Easter story from a New Testament perspective must grapple with 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians is almost universally accepted as written by Paul about AD 55/56 and therefore earlier than Acts and some, if not all, of the Gospels. From the details of Acts—18.12, which mentions Paul in Corinth with Gallio as proconsul of Achaia—and the Gallio inscription, we know that Paul visited Corinth in AD 50 and departed there AD…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/the-resurrection-engaging-mind-spirit/feed/ 0 http://thechisholmsource.com/dying-rising-what-again-2/ http://thechisholmsource.com/dying-rising-what-again-2/#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:30:15 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=504 In 2003 I gave a public lecture in Kingston, Jamaica, which provided, inter alia, a rebuttal of the ‘dying and rising Gods/Saviours’ thesis. (see my book Revelations on Ras Tafari, 2008, 81-87).  Significantly, I invited two lecturers from the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies to respond live to the lecture right after my delivery and provided the text of my lecture to them weeks before. Neither lecturer challenged the rebuttal I…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/dying-rising-what-again-2/feed/ 0 http://thechisholmsource.com/clarifying-sexual-orientation-homosexuality-and-homophobia/ http://thechisholmsource.com/clarifying-sexual-orientation-homosexuality-and-homophobia/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:51:58 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=1257 There is a general belief that conceptual clarity exists re the terms ‘sexual orientation, homosexuality and homophobia’. This belief is dead wrong as I hope to show now. According to the therapeutic manual of the American Psychiatric Association there are upwards of at least twenty distinctive sexual variations of ‘sexual orientation’. This goes way beyond the traditional orientations of heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality and bestiality and includes the ‘paraphilias’ like incest, necrophilia, etc. Would all of…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/clarifying-sexual-orientation-homosexuality-and-homophobia/feed/ 2 http://thechisholmsource.com/defending-discrimination/ http://thechisholmsource.com/defending-discrimination/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:47:36 +0000 Clinton Chisholm http://thechisholmsource.com/?p=1249 In the Jamaica Gleaner editorial of April 1, one aspect of the new proposed Constitutional Charter of Rights was given prominence; freedom from discrimination. There is much conceptual fuzziness about and thus an indefensible aversion to the term discrimination. As I argued in my 1997 book A Matter of Principle, “[discrimination] is not necessarily a bad thing. For me the essence of the wrongness of racial or gender discrimination is not that people, on the basis…]]> http://thechisholmsource.com/defending-discrimination/feed/ 0