Via Hemant Mehta. Can you spot the two ferocious T-Rexes? Read more
Via Hemant Mehta. Can you spot the two ferocious T-Rexes? Read more
In 1 Timothy 5:18 it says: For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and,“The laborer deserves his wages.” One text quoted is from the Jewish Scriptures. The other is a saying attributed to Jesus in the Gospels. And so the author of this text, not only do one or more written Gospels exist, but they are being viewed as Scripture. There could perhaps be other explanations of what we find here... Read more
Evolution Weekend 2014 is fast approaching – it is February 7-9 this year. Progressive Christians in particular will want to seize the opportunity to emphasize that rejection of mainstream science is not something that Christians need to do or ought to do. Read more
I took some words I wrote last year in a comment on another blog and turned them into an image. Read more
Via God of Evolution. This nicely complements the quote from Augustine I shared earlier. Read more
In my Sunday school class last past weekend, as we continued our discussion of sin, we focused on Jesus' teaching. I felt it was important to note not merely what things Jesus emphasized, but how he interpreted those core emphases. One could well imagine someone using the same core principles Jesus articulated – love God and love neighbor – and using them to argue against his point in the parable of the good Samaritan. If love for God comes first,... Read more
UPDATE: For those who may not find it, the quote comes from Augustine’s St. Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim, “The Literal Meaning of Genesis,” Book 1 chapter 19. That is in itself worth highlighting, since it makes even clearer that Augustine could consider the “literal meaning” important and yet not take it to have the implications that modern-day young-earth creationists do. There is even more irony, since it was Augustine who formulated the understanding of the “Fall” in... Read more
At Reading Acts, there have been two posts on Jewish-Christian Christology. Here are links to part 1 and part 2. See also the video shared at Euangelion, in which Mike Licona and Dale Martin discuss whether Jesus thought he was God: I find the depiction of Paul as claiming that Jesus was God to be problematic. Paul is nuanced in ways that modern conservative Christians are not, and strong evidence of that is the lack of any evidence that Paul’s... Read more
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