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What was in Jesus’ hand? Lessons on why you can’t take the Bible literally word for word
October 04th, 201112:55 AM ETAccording to a 2007 Gallup survey "About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word." Now let's think about this. Would you please open your Bibles to Revelation 1:14-16: *ahem* "His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like... -
Can we rationally believe in an atonement we don’t understand?
August 18th, 201103:02 PM ETHaving surveyed Ken Pulliam's discussion of the PST, I have now been asked by Robert: "How do the other theories fare? I'm guessing they have problems too, since men like Luther and Calvin rejected them in favor of PST." First off, Luther actually is associated with the Christus Victor model rather than PST, though Calvin most definitely is an adv... -
Could Jesus have given the wrong theological answer?
July 08th, 201111:53 AM ETMany Christians are happy (or at least willing) to recognize that Jesus had ignorance of certain matters. For example, he couldn't have told you that London will host the 2012 Olympics or that Transformers 3 would clean up at the box office. But that willingness to embrace Jesus being ignorant suddenly seems to exaporate when it comes to theologica... -
What is the Greatest Enemy of Faith?
June 27th, 201112:56 PM ETThe other day I came across the following passage in a Peter Kreeft book: "Dullness, not doubt, is the strongest enemy of faith, just as indifference, not hate, is the strongest enemy of love." (Everything you ever wanted to know about Heaven, 20) That gets my vote for thought provoking quote of the day, and it rings true to my own experience. As... -
Does doctrinal disagreement demonstrate God's incompetence?
April 17th, 201010:47 AM ETWe have been discussing the theology of atonement for the last couple weeks. In "Mysteries for Poets and Skeptics" I quoted AnAtheist.net who quipped in one of those threads (with a mischievous chortle, no doubt): "I wonder if He [God] gets a certain amount of pleasure (as much as I do) from watching all of these theologians wrestle and disagree w... -
Do you go to hell for having the wrong theory of atonement?
April 11th, 201010:54 AM ETJust before Easter I began a critique concerning a particular understanding of atonement, that encapsulated in the legal metaphor of Christ paying our debt of sin, as well as the penal substitutionary metaphor of Christ dying in our place. It is not that I deny these are metaphors of scripture. Rather, I deny that they provide a theoretical account... -
Hell: Christianity's most burning issue
January 28th, 201010:25 PM ETIt could be a conspiracy of silence. More likely it is an egregious case of conformity to the wider culture. But whatever the reason, there can be little doubt that the topic of hell, once the mainstay of the fire and brimstone revivalist preacher, has been for some time conspicuously absent from the vast majority of pulpits. Corroboration for the... -
Beyond kindergarten Christianity
October 27th, 200909:17 PM ETPaul lamented to the Corinthians "I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready." How little things have changed in two thousand years. It is a sad commentary how many Christians yet today remain content with a kindergarten Christianity understanding of the faith. They know that Jesus loves me, ... -
Is how we live more important than what we believe?
July 12th, 200907:54 PM ETI am currently reading an infuriating book: With or Without God by Gretta Vosper. Why it is infuriating is a topic for another blog post, Here I simply want to consider the subtitle: "Why the way we live is more important than what we believe." I have asked a couple friends to comment on the subtitle and both responded as I expected: they rejected... -
"He said he would prefer to go to Hell..."
June 01st, 200909:09 AM ETBelief and disbelief are often more complicated than we would like to admit. Consequently, drawing a line between those who are in God's kingdom and those who are outside it is also not as easy as we often assume. I explored this notion in my last post on the "righteous Muslim" in the midst of the Rwandan genocide.I intend to push the discussion fu...
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