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From Wikipedia: Lewis Sperry Chafer (February 27, 1871 – August 22, 1952) was an American theologian. He co-founded Dallas Theological Seminary with his older brother Rollin Thomas Chafer (1868-1940), served as its first president, and was an influential proponent of Christian Dispensationalism...

Archaeology is always fascinating, but when it comes to Jerusalem I have a hard time with the dating of many of the finds there. For instance, this article says that they found a villa from 1st century Jerusalem...

Hell is a place in Norse mythology, where the invalorous dead go, awaiting Ragnarok. The Biblical translators honestly screwed up by using this word. Doing so incorporated some paganism that didn't need to be there. Also, they used it to translate several words - Hades, Gehenna, & Tartarus -...

Jonah was taking a ship from Joppa to Tarshish... both cities are on the Mediterranean coast, so I assume they threw him into that Sea. Then he was "spat out" onto "dry land" 3 days journey away from Ninevah. Ninevah is landlocked, but it's near the Euphrates river, so...

So... Jonah was swallowed by that "great fish" in the Mediterranean, and re-gurgitated on the shores of the Euphrates River. Those two bodies of water don't connect. :IDK:

Only if the Western Wall was built prior to the prophecy... which is debatable. But the Temple simply wasn't on that mountain AT ALL. It was fed by and included the Gihon Spring, which is across a valley and one mountain south.

First, I didn't claim they had keener insight. I'm a big fan of the church fathers and have read/studied many of them. You shouldn't ask me to defend a point that I didn't make... that's not a fair argument. Modern and ancient scholars do different things. Modern scholars analyze grammar...

This is the sort of anti-intellectualism I've come to expect. God forbid that we should examine the Scriptures and use our brains at the same time!

Might wanna leave this one off the list... a large part of the church regards him as a heretic.

Probably because the author used source material that was old enough to have been written before that was destroyed.

Textual criticism isn't about trust. It's about observations and logic. It asks questions, like... If Paul died in 65-69 AD, then is it plausible that he wrote 2Thessalonians that refers to events that happened decades later? (BTW, the answer to that isn't necessarily 'no,' because prophecy...

It's not silent on the subject. Jesus predicts the destruction of the temple in the gospels. It IS more concerned with the re-establishment of a different temple, than the destruction of the old one. Paul has several chapters about how the real temple is the people of God in 1Corinthians...

That site is actually pretty conservative for a scholarly source. 8 of Paul's books are listed in that date range. That's more than most scholars believe were actually written by Paul...

Early Christian Writings contains a range of dates for... well, a lot more than just the New Testament... but these are probably the books you're interested in: 50-60AD 1Thessalonians, Phillippians, Galatians, 1&2Corinthians, Romans, Philemon 50-80AD Colossians 50-95AD Hebrews 65-80AD...

Do you want GOOD reasons? I don't think there are any reasons that are good enough. But reasons? There are some. The British Bible society starting printing Bibles without them for the purpose of using their budget to distribute the more important books further. It's the same reasoning...

It depends on context. Are they being appealed to as authoritative? When it says "IT IS WRITTEN" the answer is probably yes, because the word written in that formula is the same as the word Scripture when we peek under the hood into Greek. IT IS SCRIPTURE... Jude 1 cites The Book of Enoch in...

Stoicism, you say? I'm a little skeptical... :Laughingoutloud: Several Jewish writings contain enumerations of "weeks" of generations. Those "weeks" answer pretty well to the idea of ages, though they don't cycle eternally. For instance, the Book of Enoch gives us 10 "weeks" - the first 9...

It's an appeal to authority. Do you think Peter and the apostles appealed to David's writings as authoritative because they are inspired, or because they are written by David, a known prophet? I know how the modern church would answer... we have made inspiration and authority virtually...

I wasn't denying that David was a prophet. I was pointing out that David IS a prophet, even though he doesn't claim to be one (to the best of my knowledge). There is unlabeled prophecy in the Bible.

He should be! But that hasn't always been the case, in my experience.