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What did Jesus believe about Noah and Lot’s wife? A response to Justin Schieber

May 22, 2017 by Randal

Yesterday Justin Schieber tweeted some questions regarding Jesus, Noah, and Lot and his wife and he tagged me requesting a reply: Christian bloggers,If you have a moment, I'd love a post addressing these two questions:Thanks! pic.twitter.com/HhVqHRf51O — Real Atheology Podcast (@RealAtheology) May 22, 2017 Being the obliging chap that I am, I briefly tweeted a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: hermeneutics, Jesus, Justin Schieber, omniscience

The omniscient God as the jilted lover

March 23, 2016 by Randal

In “God in the terrifying image of a jilted lover” I provided some reasons why readers of the Bible should not interpret descriptions of God’s tumultuous emotional life literally. The focus of my analysis in that article was to point out how this yields a picture of God as unpredictable, emotionally needy, and threatening. In […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: God, hermeneutics, omniscience, passibility, suffering, theology

Atheist Arguments and Uncritical Anthropomorphism

November 13, 2015 by Randal

A couple days ago Justin Schieber tweeted the following sentiment: “A lack of privacy in principle surely has some weight in the question of whether we should want God to exist.” The great thing about a pithy tweet like this is that it succinctly summarizes a very common objection to God’s existence. Apparently there is […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: God, Justin Schieber, omniscience, privacy, providence

Should you hope God doesn’t exist so you can have some privacy? (Part 1)

November 10, 2015 by Randal

If I’m ever at a loss for what to talk about, my twitter feed always delivers. Today Justin Schieber tweeted the following: “A lack of privacy in principle surely has some weight in the question of whether we should want God to exist.” I have two responses to this tweet. The first response will be […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: God, Justin Schieber, omniscience, privacy, providence

Did Jesus know absolutely everything?

November 3, 2015 by Randal

Don’t ever say I shy away from the hard questions. Here’s a slide from my upcoming lecture on fifth century Christology:

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, incarnation, Jesus Christ, omniscience

Why Jesus almost certainly had some errant theological beliefs

January 10, 2014 by Randal

The discussion thread to my article “Eric Seibert on biblical violence and the Canaanites” includes an interesting discussion between Geoff and Steven Jake regarding whether Jesus may have had false beliefs, and in particular false theological beliefs. I don’t believe Jesus had any false theological beliefs about matters of soteriological import. In other words, Jesus knew […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, doctrine, Jesus, kenoticism, omniscience, paradox, theology

The fallible Jesus?

January 27, 2012 by Randal

The question of the knowledge (and ignorance) of Jess exploded back onto the blog this week when Andy Derksen commented the following in my article “How many wrong beliefs did Jesus have?” unless Jesus was in fact wrong about his very identity and mission(!) … whatever he actually *taught* as recorded in the gospels–including statements that have […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, incarnation, Jesus, omniscience

Did Jesus ever have an idol?

December 7, 2011 by Randal

My colleague Jerry wrote that I have “some wrong ideas about God, and by my definition, that is idolatrous.” Uh oh. Fortunately then Jerry added “But I’m sure I have some wrong ideas about God too (though, of course, I don’t know what they are right now), and therefore also idolatrous.” Well Jerry, you’d know […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: God, idolatry, Jerry Shepherd, omniscience, theology

How many wrong beliefs did Jesus have?

November 17, 2011 by Randal

In a recent blog post I discussed the question of theistic evolution and the beliefs of first century Jews about the creation narrative. There I argued that the inconsistency between the beliefs of those individuals, even of Jesus himself, and evolution is not an insuperable problem to an evolutionary account of human origins. As I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, error, Jesus Christ, kenosis, omniscience

Can Jesus make a better Caesar salad than my wife?

October 17, 2011 by Randal

An earlier version of this article was posted at The Christian Post in 2009. Yesterday I was at the dinner table with my wife and daughter eating a tasty meal. As I crunched the crispy romaine lettuce dressed with croutons, parmesan cheese, lemon juice and the rest, I exclaimed to my daughter, “Nobody can make […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, Dallas Willard, incarnation, Jesus Christ, knowledge, omniscience

Could Jesus have given the wrong theological answer?

July 8, 2011 by Randal

Many Christians are happy (or at least willing) to recognize that Jesus had ignorance of certain matters. For example, he couldn’t have told you that London will host the 2012 Olympics or that Transformers 3 would clean up at the box office. But that willingness to embrace Jesus being ignorant suddenly seems to exaporate when […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: doctrine, Jesus, omniscience, orthodoxy, theology

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