Search results

Fundamentalists are generally unwilling to exam the implications of the implications of Jesus' full humanity. The human Jesus is limited in knowledge (e. g. Mark 13:32), power (Mark 6:5--"He could do not deeds of power there..."), and wisdom (Luke 2:52--"Jesus grew in wisdom..."). Paul sums up...

Early OT texts don't distinguish between the active and permissive will of God. Interpretation should accomodatet this cultural linguistic difference.

As already noted, in Greek predicate nouns are generally anarthous, i. e. without the article (see Blass-Debrunner's Greek grammar #273). But there is a more important Johannine reason for translating "the Word was God." This affirmation forms a literary inclusion with 20:28, where Thomas...

Wrangler, relativity theory and string theory imply the possibility of extra dimensions and parallel universes. So as Christians, we bear the burden of proof for God, not the skeptic. So it's best to avoid the word "proof" in favor of which view makes best sense of all the relevant data.

Behold: "The world, the universe, and time.........all of these didnt just start themselves from NOTHING, by themselves." The question of the origin of the Big Bang does not lead to "proof" of God's existence. You wrongly assume that modern cosmology teaches that everything emerges from...

All arguments for God's existence derive from assumptions, and assumptions are shaped by life experience. Ultimately, then, arguments for God's existence are only as reliable as the experiences and the accurate, arbitrary, and false perceptions that inform them. The concept of "proof" is...

The ultimate test case for this question is the most famous ever Canadian evangelist, Chuck Templeton. Chuck's evangelistic crusades won thousands to Christ. He co-founded Youth for Christ, the most effective youth evangelism organization in the the 1950s and 1960s. His prayers once raised a...

Here's what the evangelical fundamentalists here don't get about Jesus' teaching on Holy Communion. In John 6:53-58 the Gospel shifts its focus from the figurative "bread of life" discourse to the more concrete Holy Eucharist. Jesus now stresses that His "flesh" and "blood" are "real food...

No, an "epistle" is the wife of an "apostle.":)

Nope! Practically any translation but the KJV is preferable! The KJV translates "Sheol" in the OT as "Hell," when in fact "Sheol" means nothing of the sort. In fact, "Hell" is totally absent from the OT.

Desire Of All Nations: "This is a gross reading of scripture. Mar. 6:6 shows what the problem was: the people of Nazareth failed to exercise real faith in Jesus' ability to heal, not because His ability to heal was supposedly limited." Nope! 6:6 says Jesus "could do no" or "was unable to do...

Readers should note x points about my exchanges with BH: (1) I was Bruce Metzger's student. Indeed, he got me into the Harvard doctoral program in NT. So I have been directly to his fervent evangelical faith. On the other hand, BH has never even met this godly man. (2) BH has never even read...

You mention Bruce Metzger. Bible Highlighter: "Metzger was a radical ecumenist. He was at the forefront of producing “the Ecumenical Edition” of the RSV in 1973 and personally presented a copy to Pope Paul VI. “In a private audience granted to a small group, comprising the Greek Orthodox...

Bible Highlighter: "Most make themselves the authority or the scholar the authority. All Modern Bibles come from Rome, and Westcott and Hort. Pontification from ignorance! Some of the best text critics are solidly evangelical. e.g. Bruce Metzger (my seminary professor) and Gordon Fee (a...

Great! Now ditch your ungodly KJV and you may keep your salvation!:) Seriously, consider the 400 thousand contradictory readings in the Greek NT manuscripts due to tired eyes of overworked monks and ask yourself, "Is it not obvious that the more recent the manuscript, the more likely that...

Aunty Jane: "In the first century, there were no failures and no one was blamed for their lack of faith if such a failure occurred......they just never did. We cannot say that now." Wrong! First, the disciples tried and failed to heal the epileptic boy (Mark 8:18, 28). Second, even Jesus tried...

(1) My friend Gord is a chaplain. He shared this experience. He visted Anny in a nursing home and noticed a bottle of lilac cologne on the stand by her bed. He asked her if she'd like an aide to apply it to her and she replied, "Oh, that would be lovely!" then she smiled and peacefully...

A reluctant non-Christian was nagged by his wife to bring their handicapped daughter to a Kathryn Kuhlman healing rally at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. During the service, a creation miracle occurred in which the daughter was given hips, which she lacked due to a birth deformity. The man...

As an ex-theology professor, I know Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. If asked about the best translations, I always begin by saying, "Any translation but the KJV and NKJV, because of the very late and highly corrupt text used for translation. In the case of the KJV's bogus ending of Mark, we even...

Holy water is blest water and the principle that justifies its use is solidly grounded in Scripture. (1) Naaman is cured of leprosy by immersing himself in the Jordan. For Naaman, then, the Jordan becomes blessed water. (2) Jesus uses spittle mixed with clay to heal. So for Him, this water...