For days it has been on my mind and each time it intrudes I tell myself “leave it outside the off-stump Chisholm, you have too much on your plate to do” The intruder is the urge to write a bit …
Author: Clinton Chisholm
Rev. Clinton Chisholm studied at the Jamaica Theological Seminary (B.Th.), the Jamaica School of Music (L.R.S.M., A.T.C.L.), the University of the West Indies (B.A.), Sheffield University, England (M.A.), the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, France (F.C.A., Fellow in Christian Apologetics) and Biola University, USA, (M.A.) In 2005 he was awarded the honourary Doctor of Divinity degree (D.D) by the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology in Jamaica where he served as a Guest Lecturer since 1993. The Rev. Mr. Chisholm has been involved in education at home in Jamaica and abroad, having served as High School teacher, lecturer at the Jamaica Theological Seminary, guest lecturer at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology (Jamaica), tutor in Philosophy at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), tutor in Business Ethics at the University of Technology (Jamaica) and teaching assistant in Hebrew at Sheffield University, England. He has produced 25 educational audio cassettes, the latest being “Homosexuality: Clinical & Biblical Perspectives”, “Afrocentrism & Black Consciousness”, “Challenges for Christianity” and “The Church’s Impact on Western Civilization”. He is the author of the book “A Matter of Principle” and “Revelations on Ras Tafari”
A ‘Spiritual’ Cliche Revisited
It has become quite popular in certain churches and so demands examination: the epithet “I decree and declare…”. A cursory analysis of the two verbs should be helpful.
To decree is to order/ordain/proclaim something, with unquestioned authority or power associated …
Images of Jesus in Art and the Bible
In my first book A Matter of Principle, 2nd edition, 2003, I said: “I would urge all churches and Christians to remove every picture of Jesus Christ that they now have hanging in their homes, chapels and other …
Is Sunday observance the future ‘mark of the beast’?
If the report in today’s Gleaner (March 13, 2021) is correct, NCU’s theologian, Dr. Michael Oluikpe argues that the mark of the beast is to be a papal mandatory observance of Sunday as a day of worship. This is a …
Beneath the Meghan/Harry Royalty Exposé
While different ones focus on the explosive nature of the disclosures about racist sentiments in the Royal Family and the deep negative emotional impact it caused on Meghan, there was no surprise for me in all of this dismal saga. …
Michael, Be Fair to God
Gist: countering a Bible critic’s claim about God in the Old Testament
My esteemed Friend Dr. Michael Abrahams in his column elsewhere in the press (Gleaner, September 7, 2015) contends that God in the Old Testament is not merciful. I am …