Biblical Studies Carnival #45 Posted
… at The Golden Rule, Bible Theme Park edition. Lots of good stuff here, and despite my usual delinquency in submitting anything, I got a link in there.
… at The Golden Rule, Bible Theme Park edition. Lots of good stuff here, and despite my usual delinquency in submitting anything, I got a link in there.
Isaiah 40:22 speaks of God sitting on the circle of the earth and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers. There is an interesting twist on idolatry that I think happens very frequently, and it makes a problem for people in understanding and accepting the doctrine that we, as humans, cannot do good of ourselves. Normally we…
This article interested me, if for no other reason than my tag line: Thoughts on Religion in the World from a passionate, moderate, liberal charismatic Christian. Now I should point out again that “liberal charismatic” was a tag bestowed on me by someone who didn’t like me, and my preference is “passionate moderate” as a…
… or On the Meaning of Words, Particularly Inerrancy There’s a post on First Things titled Ehrman Errant. Now criticizing Ehrman is apparently great sport, and Blomberg has replied to some of the types of criticisms Ehrman presents in a book, which Louis Markos reviews. The reason I mention Mike Licona, a colleague of Markos,…
I pointed earlier to a post by J. R. Daniel Kirk responding to the post at The Gospel Coalition by Jared Wilson. Wilson has now responded to some of the outrage generated by his original post. But generally his new post says we shouldn’t read his excerpt as saying what it actually says, but should…
I gave my first impressions of this Bible last year. You can probably guess my viewpoint from the title: Another Reason to Hate Study Bibles. Today John Byron of The Biblical World comments on the American Patriot Bible reaching bestseller status on Amazon.com. With the number of Americans these days who are effectively equating being…
I will be hosting the next Christian Carnival on this blog. I have already received a number of submissions and I’m working on them. Get your submissions in soon! The deadline is Tuesday night, midnight, eastern time. I’d especially like to invite Christian blogs who haven’t participated in the carnival before to do so. It’s…