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,…
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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: 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.
The Bible: How Then Shall We Understand It?
I think this is going to be my last post on the subject for a while. If you want to understand more on a subject such as this there are other authors/theologians that hold similar…
The Bible: Verses and Chapters and Why They Don’t Do Justice
The bible wasn’t originally written with verses and chapters. That may come as a surprise to many; others have already stopped reading because they knew that already. While chapters and verses have helped many remember…
Bible: The Greatest Myth Ever Recorded
There is some discussion resulting on the last post on the Bible, so you can read it there. I will comment on some of the posts soon. I’m going to post as I have time,…
The Bible: A Redemptive Historical Narrative
Over the past two years or so I’ve gotten a lot of questions about my thoughts on the bible and what it is and my views on it. From sitting down with concerned pastors, questioning…
Growing through Change
One of the things that I have been accused of in the past little while is sort of an anti-intellectualism. My ability to say ‘I don’t know’ in almost every situation bothers people. Sometimes the…
Shopping As An End
“I’m going shopping.” I’ve heard this phrase a number of times in my lifetime. It seemed normal. When I was younger, Phil and I used to go to the mall for no other reason but…