Dr Paul Allen

Robb Brunansky  Those of us old enough to remember will never forget the mass hysteria that gripped the globe in 1999.  The world stood on the edge of a new millennium, the year 2000. Not many people, historically, live to see the turn of a millennium, so the excitement was palpable. But the anticipation of seeing not one, not two, not three, but FOUR digits in the year column of the calendar change overnight was overshadowed by the fear that a computer bug known as “Y2K” might bring the world to a screeching halt. Computers went mainstream in the late 20th century, but unlike today, storage in computer systems was massively expensive. Because of the exorbitant price tag, computer programmers tried everything they could to save space.  One strategy they used was to minimize the amount of data required to store dates; so instead of storing the full four-digit year, they only stored the last two digits of the year, cutting the storage space used in half. They realized that ...

“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son , but the Father.” ( Mark 13:32 ) This verse has always been difficult to understand. If Jesus was God , how could He be ignorant of the time of His second coming? Indeed He was, and is, God, but He also was, and is, man. This is a part of the mystery of the divine/human nature of Christ . In the gospel record, we see frequent evidences of His humanity (He grew weary, for example, and suffered pain), but also many evidences of deity (His virgin birth, His resurrection and ascension, as well as His perfect words and deeds). He had been in glory with the Father from eternity ( John 17:24 ), but when He became man, “in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren” ( Hebrews 2:17 ), except for sin. As a child, He “increased in wisdom and stature” like any other human ( Luke 2:52 ). Through diligent study (as a man), He acquired great wisdom in the Scriptures and t...