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The Red Badge of Courage

On “Bible-haters”

August 27, 2011 by Randal

I have been called many things. This week Steve Hays added yet another label: “Bible hater.” The charge came in his article “Bowdlerizing the Bible” published at Triablogue. This would be comical if it weren’t so sad. I accept the plenary inspiration of scripture. I accept meticulous superintending divine providential activity as the primary means […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, bibliology, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, interpretation, irony, Stephen Crane, Steve Hays, The Red Badge of Courage, Triablogue

What John Loftus has is a failure to communicate

October 21, 2010 by Randal

Chapter 7 of Loftus’ edited volume The Christian Delusion is by Loftus himself and is titled “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” In the essay Loftus intends to provide the reader with “a brief romp through the Bible with an eye on the failure of a perfectly good omniscient God to communicate […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, Dalton Trumbo, John Loftus, Johnny Got his Gun, problem of divine hiddenness, problem of evil, Stephen Crane, The Christian Delusion, The Red Badge of Courage

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