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"Is God a Moral Monster?" A Review (Part 1)
March 31st, 201111:45 PM ETPaul Copan. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8010-7275-8. 252 pp. Much has been written in recent years on the moral problems with the depiction of God in the Old Testament. Paul Copan's Is God a Moral Monster? is a welcome entry to the literature with twenty short, engaging a... -
Does extraordinary uncleanliness require extraordinary soap?
March 30th, 201103:28 PM ETOnce again the claim has surfaced: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." And once again I have had to shoot it down. Now what could be the problem with a principle so symmetrically reasonable? Grey days produce grey moods. Cold weather requires a cold weather jacket. Why wouldn't extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?... -
Why "127 Hours" is a cut above your average film
March 12th, 201111:07 AM ETI finally saw 127 Hours. The movie tells the true story of Aron Ralston, an outdoorsy type, drink life to the lees man's man who foolishly goes hiking in the desert without telling anybody ... and gets his arm wedged in a boulder. The rest of the film chronicles Ralston's survival against impossible odds over the agonizingly long period of time ref... -
What the virgin birth isn’t
March 10th, 201111:48 AM ETLast week I told The Atheist Missionary that my very next post would be on the virgin birth. It wasn't. Was that baloney? No. Neither was it a lie. It was a statement about a future state of affairs that I believed to be true but which, due to my scattered mind, turned out not to be. So now we'll make amends by spending a spot of time camping on th... -
Forget New Years. What’s your Ash Wednesday vow?
March 09th, 201111:50 AM ETToday is Ash Wednesday marking the beginning of Lent, a time of repentance, soul-introspection and self-abnegation leading up to Easter. (Visit an Ash Wednesday service and you'll have the sign of the cross smeared on your forehead in ashes. Those ashes are traditionally made from the dried out palm fronds used in the previous year's Palm Sunday se... -
Why we should all be driving a Tata (if we’re lucky)
March 09th, 201109:17 AM ETA few years ago I was jogging along when I came upon a fine fog hovering over the sidewalk. The idiot neighbor was busy spraying his lawn with some kind of carcinogenic chemical to make it green. Good for him. But my lungs bore the brunt of it. Economists refer to that as an externality. An externality is any cost to a behavior or activity or mode ... -
Must a Christian believe God exists?
March 08th, 201111:31 AM ETIn the recent hullabaloo created by the slick marketing arm of HarperOne in which Rob Bell and Justin Taylor were played off against one another like a rousing rendition of "Dueling Banjos" down on the bayou, a number of questions have bubbled to the surface. But be careful, crocodiles lurk in those waters. Some of them carry a vicious Reformed bit... -
How to declare Rob Bell not an evangelical theologian (if you must)
March 06th, 201109:32 AM ETAlex Jordan responded to my critique of the Rob Bell Affair (or what I call "RobBellGate"; Geez, it has the same number of syllables as "Watergate", so why is it so unwieldy?) as follows: You put a really bad spin on what Justin Taylor and others were doing. You claim they act within of a "culture of aggression and fear" and are "self-appointed he... -
Rob Bell, the heresy hunters, and the evangelical culture of fear
March 05th, 201107:48 PM ETApparently there was quite a kerfuffle this week when word got around that Rob Bell's new (and as yet still unreleased) book Love Wins is, or probably does, or might, support universalism in some way. Apparently it all started when influential blogger Justin Taylor concluded after viewing a two minute promotional video that Bell is a universalist. ... -
When is a medical anomaly a miracle?
March 04th, 201107:32 PM ETThe following discussion of miracles is excerpted from my book Faith Lacking Understanding: "We often speak loosely of miracles: I call it a miracle that my team made the playoffs or that your old jalopy is still running. However, the formal definition of miracle concerns God's action in the world and encompasses such biblical events as the Red Se... -
On the general skepticism about ancient miracle reports
March 02nd, 201103:17 PM ETMany highly educated ancient historians (by which I mean historians that study ancient history, not historians that are really old) believe that the historical evidence supports the conclusion that Jesus was resurrected. For example, they point to the strong evidence for the empty tomb, post resurrection appearances, and the beliefs of the earliest...
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