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Jesus, the God of Genocide, and William Barclay
William Barclay (d. 1978) is a lot like C.S. Lewis in one key respect: he was a British scholar widely […]
Bible, biblical violence, hermeneutics, revelation, William BarclayIs the Exodus as important to Christian belief as Jesus’ resurrection?
When I was growing up, I learned to read biblical narratives as historically reliable accounts of past events. Whether the […]
Bible, bibliology, inerrancy, inspiration, revelationHidden in Plain View: A Review
Lydia McGrew, Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned coincidences in the Gospels and Acts (DeWard, 2017). Over the last few decades, Christian […]
apologetics, Bible, Hidden in Plain View, Lydia McGrew, reviewWho is the Fool? How Christians misread the Bible to attack atheists
This article is an excerpt from my 2015 book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? Rethinking Christian Attitudes Toward Atheism. It’s a […]
atheism, Bible, hermeneutics, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?Did the biblical concept of God evolve from polytheism to monotheism?
My 2013 book God or Godless (co-authored with atheist John Loftus) is a collection of twenty short debates. In ten debates I […]
accommodation, Bible, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, progressive revelationAre Angels and Demons Part of an Obsolete Biblical Worldview?
In his book The Biblical Cosmos (which I just reviewed here), Robin Parry points out that the Bible is written against the […]
angelology, Bible, biblical cosmology, biblical inspiration, biblical worldview, demonology, inerrancy, worldviewInerrancy: Still Hazy After All These Years
I grew up in a Pentecostal fundagelical church where we prided ourselves on taking Scripture seriously. That meant, among other […]
Bible, biblical inspiration, evangelicalism fundagelicalism, fundamentalism, inerrancyBecause Jesus would build a wall, that’s why!
The base of the Statue of Liberty includes this famous poem by Emma Lazarus: “Give me your tired, your poor, […]
Bible, ethics, hermeneutics, immigration“I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth…” Could God be punishing Texas?
13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled […]
Bible, hermeneutics, natural evil, problem of evil