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Is General Revelation All You Need?

August 7, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: general revelation, revelation, special revelation

Problems with the Bible that Aren’t Problems at All

February 14, 2020 by Randal

The other day, I posted the following tweet: Atheists who dismiss the Bible as “iron age fables” should invest a month studying a single book of the Bible by reading a range of biblical commentaries, monographs, and articles on that book. They will come to appreciate that much more is going on than they realized, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Bible, inspiration, revelation

Do 33,000 Christian denominations present a reason to think Christianity is not true?

November 25, 2019 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Christian diversity, confusing revelation objection, defeater, revelation

Formulating an Argument Against Christianity Based on Confusion About Salvation?

February 5, 2019 by Randal

About a year ago, I posted an article at Strange Notions titled “Answering the ‘Confusing Revelation’ Objection to Christianity.” In the article, I formulate an argument against Christianity based on the putatively confusing nature of Christian revelation. I then offer a rebuttal to the argument. (At a broader level, my entire book What’s So Confusing About […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, revelation, soteriology, What's So Confusing About Grace?

Does inerrancy apply to the human authors of the Bible?

November 21, 2018 by Randal

This morning I posted a tweet on inerrancy which prompted a reply from the philosopher Paul Franks. I thought it was an interesting Twitter exchange and worth repeating here. After compiling our tweets, I’m a bit surprised at how long it is too. I have not bothered to flag or correct the typos that appear in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, Paul Franks, revelation, theology

Can we make sense of the concept of progressive revelation? A Christian/Atheist Dialogue

August 25, 2018 by Randal

After a spirited debate with David Johnson and Andrew Knight on Unbelievable, David kindly invited me onto his podcast “Skeptics and Seekers” to discuss and debate the concept of progressive revelation. The interview just went live today and it includes opening written statements from David and myself. You can read our opening articles and listen […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: debate, interview, progressive revelation, revelation

Jesus, the God of Genocide, and William Barclay

April 30, 2018 by Randal

William Barclay (d. 1978) is a lot like C.S. Lewis in one key respect: he was a British scholar widely read and trusted by North American evangelicals who nonetheless frequently expressed some relatively radical opinions that sailed under the radar of those same evangelicals. I was reminded of this again the other day when in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical violence, hermeneutics, revelation, William Barclay

Is the Exodus as important to Christian belief as Jesus’ resurrection?

March 25, 2018 by Randal

When I was growing up, I learned to read biblical narratives as historically reliable accounts of past events. Whether the issue was the death and resurrection of Jesus, the curious maritime journey of Jonah, the Exodus from Egypt, Samson’s killing a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, or Adam and Eve talking to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, bibliology, inerrancy, inspiration, revelation

The Confusing Revelation Objection to Christianity

August 8, 2017 by Randal

Read my new article “Answering the ‘Confusing Revelation Objection’ to Christianity” at Strange Notions.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, revelation

Strange Revelations I’ve Received in the Mail (Part 2)

April 21, 2017 by Randal

Of all the end-of-the-world prophecies I’ve received over the years, this is surely the strangest and, in a bizarre way, the most endearing. And in contrast with the long-winded revelations of Warren Jeffs, it is also mercifully brief. I now present to you (drum roll please) … Hercolubus or Red Planet! Originally published in 2004, Hercolubus […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: rationality, revelation

Strange Revelations I’ve Received in the Mail (Part 1)

April 21, 2017 by Randal

As a seminary professor, I get a lot of emails (probably 3-4 per week) from strangers who are peddling their new self-published book or who are simply keen to share their revelations about the end of the world or the evil of Islam or their new theory on X or Y. Over the years I’ve […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, revelation, Warren Jeffs

The Bible as God’s Anthology

April 8, 2017 by Randal

My views on the Bible really began to change when I went to university to pursue a double major in English and religious studies. At that time I began to learn about hermeneutics including the importance of interpreting distinct literary genres, heeding historical context, and attending to the many distinct approaches to textual interpretation. Along […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, hermeneutics, inspiration, Norton Anthology of American Literature, revelation

How do you defend the Bible to those who dismiss it as the product of savage minds?

September 14, 2016 by Randal

The other day I received an emailed question from a reader which focused on the problem of genocide in the Bible. The reader asked: “If someone brought up these biblical narratives [of genocide], as Dawkins and the like have, as a means of discrediting the Christian faith and the biblical text how would you respond?” Note […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, inspiration, revelation, Richard Dawkins

Emotions as a way to moral reflection and theological truth

June 9, 2016 by Randal

A few days ago I received an email from a reader that posed a question and invited my response. With permission I’m reproducing a portion of the email. I’ll then offer a response below: If I had to say what I have found most helpful about your work, it would be your insistence on the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evangelicalism, moral epistemology, moral intuition, parable, Prodigal Son, revelation

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