Wisdom would counsel I not return to Paul, Titus, and the whole “Cretan fiasco”. [An aside: if Paul were a twenty-first century politician this affair would probably be dubbed “Cretangate” by the media.] But then I got a photocopied excerpt from an N.T. Wright commentary on Titus handed to me by my pastor and I […]
Titus
On slurring Cretans and Indians
Happily ensconced within my hotel in South Bend, Indiana and with a couple hours until this evening’s reception, I have decided to avail myself of a bit of blogging. I’ll focus on responding to a key excerpt from davidstarlingm’s defense of Paul’s comments on the Cretans in Titus 1:12-13: Paul was telling Titus to rebuke those people, […]
Inerrancy, liars, evil brutes and lazy gluttons
The word “Cretan” means (not surprisingly) an inhabitant of Crete. But it also means an uncouth, uneducated person as in: “When we were in Moscow I tried taking Billy to the Bolshoi Ballet but the Cretan listened to his heavy metal garbage the whole time on his iPod.” So the word “Cretan” in fact doubles […]
