In my previous post, Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part I, I mentioned the position suggested by Alvin Plantinga and endorsed by Nicholas Wolterstorff that the passages in Joshua that appear to record the carrying out of genocide at God’s command, such as, “putting all the people to the sword”, “leaving no survivors”, […]
Entries from January 10th, 2010
Sunday Study: Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part II
January 10th, 2010 45 Comments
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Canaanites · Genocide · K Lawson Younger · Kenneth Kitchen · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Old Testament Ethics · Sunday Study
Van Inwagen, Divine Duties and the Deontological Argument from Evil
January 9th, 2010 1 Comment
In Tooley, Plantinga and the Deontological Argument from Evil Part I and Part II, I discussed Michael Tooley’s deontological argument from evil. In The Problem of Evil Peter Van Inwagen makes a reference to the type of argument I proposed. In this post I intend to make some critical commentary on Van Inwagen’s comments. Tooley […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Michael Tooley · Peter Van Inwagen · Problem of Evil
Christian Blog Carnival 309
January 8th, 2010 Comments Off on Christian Blog Carnival 309
The Christian Blog Carnival 309 is out now at RodneyOlsen.net. Matt’s post Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites was featured. If you wish to submit a blog post to the next Christian carnival use the Blog Carnival Submission Form.
Tags: The Christian Carnival
Thursday’s Auckland Bloggers Drinks – Toast the Whale
January 6th, 2010 1 Comment
Just a reminder of tomorrow night’s Auckland Bloggers drinks. What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 7 January from 6.30pm Where: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland As Peter Cresswell said “Come along and buy Cameron Slater a drink. After paying for his lawyers, he’ll need one.” RSVP on Facebook or just turn up…
Tags: Bloggers Drinks · Whale Oil
Contra Mundum: Confessions of an Anti-Choice Fanatic
January 5th, 2010 76 Comments
If current media is to be believed opposition to legal abortion comes from misogynist fundamentalist fanatics who want to impose their religious mores onto others. This string of pejorative terms is amusing; however, it does not actually address the more crucial question of whether laws against feticide (the killing of a fetus) are just. I […]
Tags: Abortion · Contra Mundum · David Boonin · Feticide · Investigate Magazine · Peter Singer · Selection
Tales of Blog Wars and Cannon Fodder
January 4th, 2010 16 Comments
There is a war raging in the blogosphere; the war for first place in the Biblioblog rankings. Being world-famous-in-New-Zealand bloggers and TVNZ One News Anchors… We are used to putting our heads into the lion’s mouth (or at least Matt is), I find it better to just tame the lion myself… Sorry, I took these […]
Tags: Alexa · Biblioblog · Blog Rankings · Humour · Jeremy Thompson · Jim West · Joel Watts · Polycarp
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
