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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... -
Should we really interpret the Bible literally when possible?
July 26th, 201110:53 AM ETIn my previous article I focused on a common hermeneutical principle among fundamentalists. I called it the "literal when possible principle" (henceforth LPP) and I noted an example from it in the writings of John Walvoord, one of the preeminent fundamentalist scholars of the twentieth century. I then presented four arguments against it. Unfortunat... -
Is the Bible "merely" a product of its times?
June 26th, 201012:14 PM ETSometimes running a blog is like working on an assembly line stamping widgets. If you go for a bathroom break the line doesn't stop and the widgets pile up and then you never catch up. Unless your blog is your life, that invariably happens. I have a bunch of widgets (i.e. comments) piled up in my absence over the last 36 hours (a long bathroom bre... -
Why do people get dumb when they read the Bible?
March 02nd, 201009:27 AM ETWe all know how to read a newspaper. We critically digest the editorial, laugh at the comics, and take note of the movie times. Nor is such interpretive sophistication limited to adults. When it comes to putting the kiddies to bed, we pull a copy of McGillicuddy's Omnibus of Facts and Fun off the shelf. First we read a silly limerick, and little Jo...
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