Christian Replacement Zionism (or something)

Posted on 03/03/2026 by Jon Garvey

The prominence of Israel’s conflicts against genocidal Islamism and an unexpected surge of Western antisemitism, together with my recent studies in the Jewish roots of Christianity through Seth Postell, David C Mitchell and others, have brought into focus the wide range of views about “Israel” amongst those calling themselves Christians.

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Luke – historian and literary stylist

Posted on 27/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

Our church sermon and Bible-study series on the Book of Acts has reached chapter 12, and the miraculous escape of Peter from Herod’s prison.

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The generations of pre-adamic man

Posted on 25/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

I came across a short clip of a discussion between the late Michael Heiser and Joshua Swamidass. It is on the Genealogical Adam theory Josh and I developed, he in the mainly scientific Genealogical Adam and Eve, and I in the almost simultaneously published, and primarily theological, Generations of Heaven and Earth.

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Fearfully and wonderfully bodged?

Posted on 18/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

Back in October 2020, I participated in a Webinar organised by the Christian Scientific Society, which also included Stuart Burgess from the UK, and Fuz Rana, Scott Minnich and David Snoke from the US.

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Knowing God or hearing God

Posted on 16/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

The current Charismatic claim (but only since the particular flavour of that theology that came in with John Wimber in the 1980s) is that God speaks to us during prayer if we listen hard enough. My response, so far unrefuted, is that nothing in Scripture teaches this (and what is not in Scripture is, of course, unscriptural teaching). But the justification for it is that Scripture may have been jolly good for “then,” but we need to hear God’s word for now.

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Omnicorruption week

Posted on 09/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

Last week was, in my view, rather remarkable for the release of at least five massive tales of corruption and deception simultaneously. Most have attracted less attention than they deserve. All are profoundly depressing.

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Righteousness exalts a nation

Posted on 07/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

Soon after the Epstein files were released, the MSM tried, apparently unsuccessfully, to launch a story that Epstein was actually employed by Russian Intelligence to create a honey-trap to uncover Western secrets.

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On miracles and miracle-workers

Posted on 05/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

“Jesus worked miracles through the Holy Spirit. Christians have the same Spirit. Therefore they can do the same miracles.” This is the syllogism often put out by Bill Johnson of the Bethel Redding cult. It depends on an erroneous kenotic view of the incarnation and is proven useless by the trail of failed wonders and the fraudulent leg-lengthening, angel-feathers etc widely used by their acolytes as a substitute.

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How did Evangelicals get so phrygian heretical?

Posted on 02/02/2026 by Jon Garvey

Last week dealt another blow to the hypercharismatic movement, through a long (6 hour!) video by Mike Winger, exposing both the fakery and sexual and psychological abuse by yet another leg-lengthening false prophet, whose name I can’t be bothered to remember, and his relentless promotion as a prophet of God by the leadership of Bethel, Redding.

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Forever blowing bubbles

Posted on 29/01/2026 by Jon Garvey

This morning the price of gold broke the £4,000/oz level. Even the Beeb news has had charts this week showing the exponential rise in bullion prices. I don’t think they were so upfront in drawing the main lesson that the accelerating rise in price over the last few years teaches: that it indicates the abandonment of confidence in the world financial system, which is built on escalating debt and rapidly depleting trust.

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