Ten Questions I Always Ask Myself When Studying the Bible
No, not me! Lisa Robinson at Parchment and Pen. But I should, and so should you.
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Hearing 2 Corinthians
ByhenryWhen I wrote about 2 Corinthians and the importance of story, I had not read this wonderful post. (HT: John Meunier.)
Sola Scriptura (Link and Comment)
ByhenryI am running late today, and may not get much of what I intended to post completed, but in the meantime, Mark Olson has a post on sola scriptura over at Pseudo-Polymath which is quite interesting. He has already been taken to task (only with the utmost courtesy, of course) by a commenter that the…
Young Earth and the Bible
ByhenryNote: I’m going to be running two series here in parallel over the next few weeks, one on the methods of Biblical criticism and how a layperson can apply them, and the other on views of God as the creator. I’m pretty well known to be a theistic evolutionist, but at the same time, I…
July Biblical Studies Carnival Posted
Byhenry… at Reading Acts. This is one of those rare occasions when there is a link back to this very blog!
Scale from Literal to Figurative
ByhenryThere is considerable debate in Biblical studies about what elements should be taken literally, and what should be taken figuratively. Several things tend to confuse this debate, including the perception that if one takes something any way other than literally, one is taking it less seriously. For many people, literal is equivalent to true or…