Well, somehow this post came out blank. There really was something there. Really! Here it is, rewritten: Philip Payne has written a post on the Koinonia blog defending the idea that 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is an interpolation (HT: Evangelical Textual Criticism). I have discussed this issue before (Does Gordon Fee Discard Part of the Bible),…
My wife chose to use an old devotional on grace that I wrote for today’s devotional on her list. I don’t usually do this, but the devotional touched my heart again, as it did when I wrote it. The devotionals I write always hit me first!
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If I were invited to offer the invocation at a government event at which people of any faith should be welcome, I would have to refuse. This is a stand that has been misunderstood by both supporters and opponents of separation of church and state. I have been told that I lack the courage of…
Bruce Alderman discusses a recent post by the Internet Monk on the topic of how learning to take the Bible more seriously (my summary) moved him away from young earth creationism. I empathize with the process. I find it interesting that people think that somehow the theory of evolution drove me to a less literal…
I had just finished posting the previous note, Talk about the Method, when I went back to my Google Reader and found this YouTube video, complete with a call to a five year commitment to God, via Polycarp: Now if people had any knowledge of method, or were at least practiced in thinking about method,…
When I teach Sunday School classes, as I often do, there is nothing more likely to lull people to sleep than a discussion of hermeneutics. I get a great deal of attention talking about history. People are very interested as I explore some different interpretations of a particular Biblical passage and where and when those…
Over on my company blog I indicated that these rules were generally common sense, as in if you make money off of something you should disclose the fact that you do. Of course, you can’t count on the government to use common sense even in implementing common sense. Thus somehow if print news organizations get…
John Hobbins has produced an excellent post on exegesis, The unacceptable limits of traditional exegesis, in which he calls us to keep the various senses of the text together, or perhaps in tension. At some time I would like to extend this discussion to the use of the various disciplines we normally bundle under the…