Today at 2pm Eastern time I will be a guest on the Canadian radio program, the Drew Marshall Show. Please do tune in to listen, whether on the radio if you are in Canada, or online. The topic will be the recent debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye. Joel Baden has a great piece in the Huffington Post about the selectivity with which young-earth creationists embrace what is in the Bible. Here’s a sample: The Bible contains multiple accounts and... Read more
HT Jeff Carter. The Bible refers to Exodus 20:12 as the first commandment with a promise. Hence the title of my blog post. Read more
It was in the news recently that Associates for Biblical Research claims to have made a find that indicates that the city of Ai could have been inhabited in a period when it could have been destroyed by the Israelites. Associates for Biblical Research, if you aren’t familiar with it, is an organization which is committed in advance to the Bible being correct. And so it is interesting to note what they used to say about Ai. In a documentary... Read more
Abram K-J pointed out in his last Septuagint Soiree that today would be Septuagint Day. And so give yourself an LXX helping of Bible to mark the occasion! 🙂 Read more
I have been overdue for some time to blog about the Logos Jesus Studies Collection, a set of books which converge on the figure of Jesus from different angles. The volumes are important ones, their contents fascinating and useful to scholar and interested general reader alike. This is truly a wonderful set of resources. Richard Burridge’s book Four Gospels, One Jesus? explores some of the topics that Burridge is best known for writing about, in a manner that is accessible to... Read more
Two bits of news related to the book and movie A Polite Bribe. First, the DVD is available for pre-order on Amazon. Second, here is the pre-screening panel discussion from the showing in Madison, Wisconsin: Read more
I wish the image had found a way to incorporate the fact that Ken Ham does not simply organize theevidence according to “what the Bible says.” He distorts the Bible and picks and chooses there as well. But it is still worth sharing even if it oversimplifies the situation. Read more
A commenter on this blog made this insightful observation: Ham’s words actually imply (to me at least) that even if God Himself came down and said “you read My book wrong,” he would reply with “This book is right and you are not God.” That pinpoints the danger in Ham’s stance, and that of others like him. In order to persuade himself that the Bible says only one thing, says it clearly, and offers no other statements to the contrary,... Read more
I mentioned previously that, challenged with coming up with a list of the core beliefs of my church, the members basically only agreed on one word: grace. And so I am grateful to Dănuţ Mănăstireanu for drawing my attention to the fact that U2 have a song with the title “Grace,” which I’ve shared above. Read more
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