Author: Nathan Colquhoun

New Blog

Isn’t one enough? I’m starting up something new; it’s more of an experiment. Instead of a resources page that I originally wanted I’m going to try and keep a second blog. This will be full…

Chronicles of a Little Girl

I went and saw Chronicles of Narnia tonight, without Rachel, she wasn’t too happy, but such is life. It was a very well done movie; I enjoyed it a lot. There was one thing that…

Relationship Gaps and Growing Up

I have different relationships with people all over the world. Some are family, others are friends, others are just ministry contacts and some are just acquaintances. Some I talk to every single day, others weekly,…

updates

For those that are following, most of the discussion on inerrancy is still happening on the first post. I’m going to be posting more after Monday on different things and such, but stay in the…

Bible: Authority by N.T. Wright

Joe sent me to a article by N.T. Wright one of my more favourite scholars. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Here are some things I liked more specifically. Let me offer you a possible model, which…

Bible: Errant/Inerrancy Doesnt Do It

I’m having a hard time with all these posts on inerrancy. I guess in my challenges of inerrancy everyone thinks that I automatically default to the bible being errant. I don’t know if I’m comfortable…

Bible: Inerrancy

Ok, after Keith’s questions he wants to understand why I can’t see the bible as inerrant, I my as well post this for everyone to read since lots of people seem to be interested in…

Terms That Define Us

All expressions concerning the description of God must never be taken literally; they are simply due to the inadequecy of human language “to make the ear listen to what it can hear.” -Abot de-Rabbi Nathan-…

Bible- Errors and Gods

I’ve had a few concerned people mention some things about my posts on the bible. Surprisingly the concern was the ‘contradictions’ part of my posts. You can read the entire church series here. I thought…

A Boob Apologetic

So my doctor popped me with a few needles to take some of my lifesource away from me and determined that I had mono. So that could either mean a lot more writing for my…

Authority: Bottom Leads

Pernell from the FRWY asked a question on his blog a bit ago, and got some interesting responses. Some of them are along the lines of what I was saying about authority. This is the…

Authority: Authoritative vs. Influential?

I don’t believe authority figures in the kingdom are supposed to act authoritative with towards other people. All through the bible you see Jesus commending people to be servants, to consider others better than themselves…

Authority: Working Under the Top

I’m trying to add some new things to the site. Last night I procrastinated from my work and spent sometime learning some new scripts and the result: a random quote generator. I get to add…

Authority: The Nazi Church

There is no doubt that authority has been abused throughout history. I can say the name Hitler and everyone cringes. Should this sort of authority be present in the church? Was it meant to be…

Authority: Its an Issue

One thing I have struggled with through my lifetime is the understanding of authority; more particularly church authority. I’ve been told by people in pastoral positions that I need to listen to whatever they say…

1 Year Evaluation

Here are the reasons I listed on my first post of why i was creating this blog, let’s see how I’m doing. I figure its good to re-evaluate after a year of being online, to…

Happy Birthday Website

Today is the one year anniversary of my website. Happy birthday to my website. Get me a birthday present by clicking on every single google link. A debrief of the past year will follow soon.