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Al Mohler says the devil is in the details. Ironically enough, he’s right.
September 22nd, 201104:26 PM ETImagine a defense attorney that is trying to defend his client's innocence against the charge of murder. To his initial delight the defense attorney comes across an eyewitness who is emphatic that the attorney's client did not commit the murder. The reason? The eyewitness says he saw another man commit the crime. Do you think the attorney would be ... -
The Edsel of Christianity?
August 17th, 201107:25 PM ETI have now completed Part II of The End of Christianity, a section which aimed through the essays of Hector Avalos, Jaco Gericke and Valerie Tarico, to establish on biblical grounds why Christianity needs to end. At this point I'd like to take a look back at the section by identifying a set of assumptions that appear to lie behind the three essays ... -
One Word in many, many words: A Review of Thom Stark’s “Human Faces” (Part 2)
July 28th, 201102:09 AM ETThom Stark. The Human Faces of God: What Scripture reveals when it gets God wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries To Hide It). Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011, 248 pp. ISBN: 13:978-1-60899-323-9. For Part 1 of this review click here. In the first chapter, "The Argument: In the Beginning was the words" Stark introduces us to his foundational premise: ... -
Looking up to God or down a deep well: A Review of Thom Stark’s “Human Faces” (Part 1)
July 27th, 201102:08 PM ETThom Stark. The Human Faces of God: What Scripture reveals when it gets God wrong (and Why Inerrany Tries To Hide It). Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011, 248 pp. ISBN: 13:978-1-60899-323-9. With all the recent hullabaloo regarding the Stark-Copan-Flannagan debate concerning whether Thom Stark is too stark I thought it an opportune time to begin ... -
How fundamentalists undermine the authority of scripture
July 25th, 201110:53 AM ETChristian fundamentalists like to trumpet the authority of scripture over all things. Unfortunately the way that fundamentalists read scripture tends to undermine that authority. The key problem is that fundamentalists widely subscribe to a hermeneutical (that is interpretive) principle that the text should be interpreted literally when possible. T... -
On slurring Cretans and Indians
June 01st, 201105:28 PM ETHappily ensconced within my hotel in South Bend, Indiana and with a couple hours until this evening's reception, I have decided to avail myself of a bit of blogging. I'll focus on responding to a key excerpt from davidstarlingm's defense of Paul's comments on the Cretans in Titus 1:12-13: Paul was telling Titus to rebuke those people, who were "ac... -
Inerrancy, liars, evil brutes and lazy gluttons
May 31st, 201108:34 AM ETThe word "Cretan" means (not surprisingly) an inhabitant of Crete. But it also means an uncouth, uneducated person as in: "When we were in Moscow I tried taking Billy to the Bolshoi Ballet but the Cretan listened to his heavy metal garbage the whole time on his iPod." So the word "Cretan" in fact doubles as a racial slur not unlike calling someon... -
How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 2)
October 13th, 201012:32 AM ETWe all tend to look at life through rose-colored glasses, at least rose colored where our own assumptions are concerned. As I noted last time round, this is certainly evident in the way that Christians tend to read the psalms, meditating on the praises, thanksgiving and wisdom while screening out all the imprecations. And I provided a couple exampl... -
How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 1)
October 09th, 201011:07 AM ETI just got back from a conference I spoke at in Vancouver, my topics being genocide, doubt, and the imprecatory (cursing) psalms. I offer here some initial thoughts on the imprecatory psalms. A friend of mine says, “I know what you mean by what you do.” Evangelicals say that “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking... -
Anarchists and atheists and Bibles, Oh My!
September 02nd, 201007:04 PM ETIt is a danged shame that I can’t give all the fine comments that find their way into my blog the attention they deserve. But I do what I can, and last week I made a note to get back to the comments of AnAtheist.Net. I’ve included them below and numbered them for ease of reference (just like a medieval monk numbering biblical passages you might...
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