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February 2018

February 06, 2018

Biblical Inerrantists, What Do You Do About the Following?

I used to believe that the Bible was the inerrant Word of God. I believed...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

Quoting the Old Testament: An Unmistakable Pattern in Jesus and Paul

“Both Jesus and Paul quote the Old Testament, therefore they affirm all of it,” or...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

3 Lenses With Which to View the So-Called ‘Clear Biblical Truths’

If you’ve spent any time discussing theology with other Christians, you’ll likely hear about so-called...

November 10, 2017

Distefano’s 35 Theses Nailed to the Patheos Wall

It’s been just over a week since the 500-year anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, which...

October 2017

October 03, 2017

5 Things We’ll Miss if We Take the Bible Too Literally

We all want certainty, especially when it comes to the Bible. I get that. It...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Problematizing Biblical Inerrancy

It seems safe to say that most Christians — whether Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Anabaptist, or...

June 2017

June 22, 2017

Jesus is the Reason the Bible is Not Innerant

Growing up, I was always told that the Bible was the inerrant Word of God....

November 2016

November 02, 2016

No, We Are NOT Marcionites

The charge of Marcionism is often leveled toward anyone who says that “God is just...

October 2016

October 01, 2016

What My Universalism Is and Is Not

If you spend more than 20 minutes with me, either in person or on social...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Modern Evangelicalism, or in other words, Second Temple Judaism v. 2.0

I grew up in the Evangelical church, so I’m fairly familiar with all of the...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Jesus is the Reason the Bible is Not Innerant

Growing up, I was always told that the Bible was the inerrant Word of God....

March 2016

March 22, 2016

A Mock Conversation about Hell

Author’s note: Because I hold to the doctrine of universal reconciliation—and brazenly so—I take a...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

The Wrath (of God?)

In The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul, Pauline scholar Douglas Campbell...

February 01, 2016

How to Cherry-Pick the Bible

So, how did Jesus read the “Bible?” Well, he cherry-picked it. Gasp! It’s okay though, so did Paul. Double...

December 2015

December 27, 2015

Introduction for my next book: “From the Blood of Abel.”

Well, I do not believe any of these options or any similar are satisfactory and over the...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

The God We Follow

So what do I say to those who hold to a theology that includes violence?Start...

August 12, 2015

Jesus Christ: The Fullness of God in Bodily Form

Whether in lesson, in action, or even in hermeneutics, Jesus is constantly redefining our understanding...