Archive for August, 2006
I was reading about Bart D. Erhman on Wikipedia (found here) and I discovered that a transcript is available online of the recent debate (March 2006) between Bart D. Erhman and William Lane Craig over the resurrection. The transcript can be found here.
Update:
I found an interview with Ehrman on Fresh Air (NPR) found here [...]
This question of polygamy has come up as our church goes through the process of selecting new deacons and wondering what to do with that pesky little passage in 1 Tim 3 about “deacons be husbands of one wife/woman.” Does this refer to polygamy? How common was polygamy in the first century world?
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I am not a professor, but I was reading a list of student bloopers–actually mistakes that students in college made on tests and homework assignments. One of them I thought was pretty funny:
“The Bible is full of many interesting caricatures. Moses went up on Mt. Cyanide to get the Ten Commandments, but he [...]
#1 Hell has been discovered under the sea; for details look here.
#2 Information related to the next Biblical Studies Carnival can be found here.
#3 Rudolf Bultmann celebrates his birthday this week as announced by Jim West.
#4 For an interesting post on the use of the OT in the NT see Euangelion.
#5 To listen in [...]
If you haven’t noticed, there has been a lot of discussion of late in the blogosphere regarding the subject of universalism due to the recent announcement of a book written under a pseudonym which has received positive endorsement from several notable scholars.
The comments on my posting now run about a dozen. To read those [...]
The question of divorce and remarriage is always a controversial question within the church today. Nowhere does this discussion become more important and debated than with the ordaining of ministers and with leaders such as deacons.
Our church is undergoing the process of finding and ordaining new deacons. The question came up, as it [...]
I have heard a lot about the evangelical movement known as Promise Keepers. Thousands of men gather in a coliseum and sings songs and promise to never break the promise that they have broken before. I have never really been interested in going to a Promise Keepers rally. But they came to [...]
On page 40 in Paul by N. T. Wright, he describes the noticeable absence of attention in the past two hundred years on the concept of Messiahship. Many, he says, think that when Paul used Christos he was simply referring to a “proper name.”
He then describes another phenomenon in scholarship in which people tend [...]
Matthew Hopper has posted a powerful rejoinder to my remarks on the subject of “Paul’s evangelistic style.” Was Paul a preacher like Billy Graham who calls for his congregation to come forward to make a decision?
I argued that it is quite likely that Paul was a similar preacher in that he did call for a [...]
The debate is underway at Chris Tilling’s Chrisendom discussing his opinions on the matter. Previously Tilling had posted on the Evangelical Universalist which is the title of a book by [...]
