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Archives for July 2021

Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan Don’t Want to Debate Me. But if They Did, I’d Ask Them This

July 31, 2021 by Randal

Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan offer extensive critiques of my views in their book Did God Really Command Genocide? In turn, I devoted most of a chapter on what I called “The Just War Interpreters” to an extensive critique of their ‘kinder, gentler’ interpretation of the Canaanite genocide by demonstrating that it collapses into ethnic cleansing […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan

Interpreting Scripture in Light of Our Moral Intuitions

July 29, 2021 by Randal

My interview on The Analytic Christian regarding Jesus Loves Canaanites. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites

Christian Terrorists and No True Scotsmen

July 27, 2021 by Randal

My latest podcast takes on the Capitol riots. In this podcast, I respond to American Atheist’s statement that the Capitol insurrectionists were “Christian terrorists. Full stop.” Not so fast, American Atheist, it’s a bit more complicated than that. You can listen to it here.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist

How Professional Wrestling can Help Us Understand the Bible

July 26, 2021 by Randal

In this video, I argue that in the same way that we can appreciate professional wrestling as performance even if it is not a conventional sport, so we can appreciate non-historical aspects of the biblical narrative even if they are not literally true. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, professional wrestling

Strawmanning Atheists: A Critique of Frank Turek

July 22, 2021 by Randal

Frank Turek claims that atheists “steal from God.” In this video, I explain how Turek’s argument is based on a strawman of atheistic and a very uncharitable metaphorical framing of atheism conceptual reflection in terms of criminal theft. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Frank Turek, Rebellion Thesis, strawman

William Lane Craig Says He Doesn’t Support Donald Trump. Don’t Believe It

July 18, 2021 by Randal

William Lane Craig recently devoted an episode of his Reasonable Faith Podcast to one of my videos in which he offered a critical response to some of my comments on his book Reasonable Faith and his ministry more generally. One of the points I raise is the way that his close alignment with the Republican Party […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Donald Trump, William Lane Craig

Discussing Biblical Violence on Conservative Talk Radio

July 16, 2021 by Randal

Yesterday, I was a guest on the Bob Dutko Show (WMUZ, Detroit) to discuss Jesus Loves Canaanites. I’ve been on Bob’s show several times over the years and I always enjoy it. Speaking with Bob is a challenge as he is a conservative talk radio host who has supported Donald Trump, calls BLM a “Marxist group” […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bob Dutko, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites

William Lane Craig Responds to My Modest Critique of Reasonable Faith

July 14, 2021 by Randal

One of my students pointed out that William Lane Craig recently responded to one of my videos. (It turns out someone does watch my YouTube channel! ) You can listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reasonable-faith-podcast/id252618197?i=1000526272746

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist

Does Christianity Need a Historical Adam?

July 14, 2021 by Randal

Today, I posted the following poll on Twitter: Christianity requires a historical Adam and Eve. — Tentative Apologist (@RandalRauser) July 14, 2021 We can approach the question like this: imagine that it turns out that the following Christian doctrines are true: a triune God exists,  he created all that exists, and the second person of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: fall, historical Adam, orthodoxy

Biblical Violence is Still Violence … and is not Appropriate for All Ages

July 13, 2021 by Randal

A parent once asked me whether The Passion of the Christ would be appropriate viewing for his ten-year-old child. I replied by asking if he thought the infamous ten-minute torture-ear amputation scene in Reservoir Dogs would be appropriate. The fact that you interpret some violent event as having religious significance doesn’t magically make it appropriate […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical violence

An Open Letter to Lee Strobel and Sean McDowell

July 12, 2021 by Randal

To Lee Strobel and Sean McDowell, I am writing to you concerning your endorsements of Alisa Childers’ book Another Gospel?  Mr. McDowell, you referred to the book as “a timely must-read book.” And Mr. Strobel, you actually wrote the forward to the book and you claim that Childers “fearlessly confronts the distortions and outright falsehoods […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Lee Strobel, Sean McDowell

According to Alisa Childers, People Like Me Are Going to Hell: A Review of Another Gospel?

July 11, 2021 by Randal

I just finished reading Alisa Childers’ book Another Gospel?. It is a hugely popular book that came out a year ago and has almost two thousand Amazon.com reviews. As I will note briefly below, it does have some diamonds embedded in the coal. But there is a lot of coal. Indeed, this is one of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, review

Counter Apologist Round 2: The Epistemology Discussion

July 7, 2021 by Randal

Last week, I hosted Counter Apologist on my YouTube channel. This week, he returned the favor and we had a wide-ranging discussion about rationality, dialogue, and other matters. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Counter Apologist, epistemology, rationality

On the Holy Piety of Getting Angry with God

July 6, 2021 by Randal

Some Christians think that the life of Christian discipleship is a life of victorious Christian living in which we are content in all things. But what if Christian discipleship has room for the full range of human emotional responses to God including doubt, sadness, disappointment, and even anger?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: anger, God, piety

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