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September 2012

September 04, 2012

Revelation 7: The Seal of God, the Earth’s Corners, and Tribal Errors

This past Sunday in my Sunday school class, we talked about Revelation chapter 7. Given...

August 2012

August 26, 2012

Creationists Vote to Ditch Genesis 1-3 for Being Soft on Evolution

News from the future: At their 2025 annual meeting, a well-known young-earth creationist organization decided...

August 23, 2012

Mined Quote from James Barr

There's a quote, attributed to James Barr, which is popular among young-earth creationists. Here is...

August 22, 2012

Do Young-Earth Creationists Deny that God Spoke Creation into Existence, or Creation out of Nothing?

It illustrates the selective literalism of young-earth creationists, that they never seem to realize the...

August 21, 2012

How to Make a Liberal Bible Scholar

Today's "Quote of the Day" comes from Greg Carey: The best way for conservative churches...

August 20, 2012

Quotes on Inerrancy

There were several quotes that I wanted to share, all related to inerrancy, and so...

August 19, 2012

Don’t Follow the Way of Sinners, O Young-Earth Creationists!

In a conversation with a young-earth creationist here on this blog, I was struck by...

August 18, 2012

Young-Earth Creationists Substitute Words of Men in Place of the Word of God

Time and time again I have heard young-earth creationists say that one has to choose...

August 17, 2012

Sooner or Later, You Have to Choose between the Bible and Inerrancy

A discussion I've been part of on Facebook illustrates something that I have said before...

August 16, 2012

Canon and Compromise

There is something ironic about people pointing to their canon of Scripture and being uncompromising...

August 12, 2012

New Holiday: Apologize for Calling the President the Antichrist Day

The viewpoint of most of those who take a futurist approach to Revelation is that...

August 09, 2012

Homosexuality and Sin Flow Chart

This came my way on Facebook. While some of it is simplistic, I don't expect...

August 07, 2012

I Don’t Understand Jim West

There are plenty of things that I do understand about Jim West. He has no...

August 04, 2012

Biblical Faith is not Avoiding Doubt, nor is it Feeling Certain

The Bible itself raises challenges to the way conservative Christians in our time tend to...

August 03, 2012

Inerrancy and Literalism: Quote of the Day (Theodore M. Vial)

Contemporary conservative Christian exegetes claim both inerrancy and literalism as hermeneutical principles, but will always...

August 02, 2012

Eric Reitan: Inerrancy is Only a Theory, and Inerrantists aren’t Evil

Eric Reitan has a post on "That Chick-fil-A Business" and it is insightful and relevant...

July 2012

July 18, 2012

Don’t Let the Fact That Paul’s Letters are Now Christian Scripture Undermine Their Message and Authority!

Paul, in his time, made a case for relaxing Scriptural stipulations about the need for...

July 17, 2012

Is there or ‘aint there mistakes the Bible?

Some people think that they must defend the Bible's various words, statements, and depictions as...

July 11, 2012

Apocalyptic Philadelphia Freedom

This past Sunday in my Sunday school class, we discussed the message addressed to the...

May 2012

May 10, 2012

God at Gunpoint

David Hayward offers another brilliant cartoon illustrating Biblicism's approach to religion comically but poignantly.

May 09, 2012

Outgrowing and Out-learning Young-Earth Creationism

There are a couple of interesting posts around the blogosphere related to young-earth creationism. Fred...

May 07, 2012

Time for the End of the Sectarian University?

Churches have long been instrumental in the establishment of universities. Some of the most prestigious...

May 02, 2012

Divine Author and Intelligent Designer of Killing Machines?

Steve Douglas has a post on the idea of God as author of Scripture which...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Misplaced Worship

A cartoon from ASBO Jesus:

March 24, 2012

Literally as Old as Methuselah?

The expression "old as Methuselah" is perhaps not as common now as it once was....

March 13, 2012

No Amen To That!

The above cartoon from The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus makes a crucially important point....

March 03, 2012

Does Reading the Bible Lead to Atheism? Does Losing Faith Save one from Fundamentalism?

Hemant Mehta shared this cartoon about the year after the "Year of the Bible" in...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Biblicism in a Single Image

David Hayward has created yet another excellent cartoon: The irony, of course, is that many...

February 27, 2012

Does the Earth Rotate? Check Out What REAL Biblical Literalism Looks Like

This video has everything one would expect from pseudoscientific charlatans like Ken Ham and his...

February 18, 2012

The Burial of Jesus – Even Cheaper in the UK?

If you're in the UK, you can get The Burial of Jesus from Amazon.co.uk -...

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