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I repeat: it is a sad irony that Christians with the highest view of Scripture blissfully prefer the most corrupt text, the one used by the KJV. None of thse naïve Christians care enough about God's Word to read an academically respected book on Text Criticism such as the one written by my...

TruthOT: Please respond to these 7 questions which are designed to determine whether I should continue to dialogue with you and whether I consider you intellectually honest about your quest for the purpose of your life: (1) If God exists and rejects your agnosticism as a productive way to...

13 PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE POST-MORTEM STATE OF THE DAMMED: As expected, Evangelicals have either ducked the basic relevant 13 philosophical questions posed at the start of this thread or offered superficial answers that avoid an in depth response because of the threat that attunement...

Kathryn Kuhlman's death reminds me of the darkness and earthquake as Jesus died on the cross. I was fascinated by this nurse's eyewitness account of the manner of KK's death that apparently played a role in the nurse's conversion: kathryn kuhldman'd death nur se youtube - Bing video In my next...

Christian apologetics is self-defeating when it uses strawmen and simple-minded stereotypes to critique conflicting perspectives. For this reason, I have defended Catholic interpretations of Scripture and Tradition against simple-minded Evangelical mischaracterizations. Effective apologetics...

Covenant Promise, Not only am I not Catholic, but I have even won a lawsuit against the Catholic Church! Yet Catholic posters have Your claim has repeatedly been decisively refuted and your have no answer to the refutation other than mindless denials like this one.

marks: "If Dreams and Visions have authority, why are they not all received as such?" Spiritual dreams and visions can be revelatory and when they are, they are a sign of the church age in fulfillment of the prophecy in Joel 2:28: "In the latter days, it will be, God declares, that I will pour...

As a retired pastor and lifelong Christian, I have come to the conclusion that the least effective sermon topic is generally love. I say this for 2 reasons: (i) Most believers think of themselves as loving Christians and misapply insightful sermons on love to justify their often deluded...

(1) "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5)." The poster can find no evidence from antiquity whatsoever for use of the expression "born of water" as a reference to amniotic fluid. Jesus is specifying 2 necessary conditions...

@BlueGreenEarth In the biblical sense, the word "faith" must be conceived differently than your characterization. In both "Hebrew" ("amunah") and Greek ("pistis") the word translated faith connotes "faithfulness." This nuance acutely raises the relevance of the classic Christian philosophical...

A good rule of thumb in deciding which modern books on Christian spirituality to read is this: generally ignore books whose quotations are all in the KJV. Why? Because it demonstrates that they have not formed their perspectives in dialogue with modern academic book commentaries on the Bible...

The posted video documents the facts of the KJV translation, not subjective opinion, apart from the narrator's opinion that the KJV is the greatest book ever written in the English language! I agree that no modern translation rivals it for majesty, despite its archaic language. My beef is with...

Few Christians are aware of the dramatic story of how and why the KJV was translated, the scholars of dubious character and reputation who did the translating (drunks, violent bigots, sycophants, etc.), and the political and hierarchical bias that the translators were required to serve. Despite...

LOL, in other words, you and David Taylor have nothing meaningful to say, and so, you flee honest dialogue in terror! Clearly, neither of you have read a standard academic book on the formation of the New Testament canon like the works of Robert M. Grant or Hans van Campenhausen.

Why do Baptists so often resort to insults when they are incapable of seasoning their penchant for bluster with a modicum of intellectual rigor. Now reread my argument and see if you can see past your gob-smacked reaction to make at least a token effort at a rational response.

Just the opposite! The Scriptures only have authority when they are faithful to church doctrine. How so? Because the Church (not the NT docments) gets her authority from Christ and because it is the Church that decided on the basis of Church doctrine which documents would and would not be...

(10) My next experience of "the word of knowledge" happened when I was a Theology professor at a Catholic university in New York state. I had just finished my 4-course teaching load and was exhausted. So I began to think about a much needed vacation. But that Friday night I became obsessed...

BlueGreenEarth: "Several New Testament books were excluded from this analysis because they were not relevant to the topic, their authenticity has been contested by a consensus of Biblical scholars, or have been demonstrated to be duplicative in that they are later versions of the same content...

I'm haunted by Luther's response at the end of his life to the question of whether he had any regrets. He replied, "I wish I had made my sermons shorter and more in a the language of the common people." Luther had a unique way of making his meaning graphically clear in few words. 2 examples...

Calvin's excessively verbose quote should have been greatly condensed to maximize its impact. The quote reminds me of my favorite quote from Woodrow Wilson in his insightful response to feelers put out to see if he might be willing to deliver the commencement address at Princeton University...