John FH of Ancient Hebrew Poetry has written a thoughtful hazing of some of my posts on inerrancy, Inerrancy and Biblical Authority and Two Forms of Inerrancy. The points he raised are issues worth taking up. John’s first concern is that the two conceptions of inerrancy I set out, those of Verbal Plenary Inspiration (VPI) […]
Entries from April 4th, 2010
Inerrancy and The Originals: A Response to John FH
April 4th, 2010 3 Comments
Tags: Ancient Hebrew Poetry · Inerrancy · John FH
Contra Mundum: Slavery and the Old Testament
April 3rd, 2010 33 Comments
“Why didn’t the Christian God ever explicitly and clearly condemn slavery?” This was John Loftus’ question in his book, Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity. He posed it after sharing the following chilling account of slavery as practiced in the antebellum American south, He took her into the kitchen, and stripped […]
Tags: Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · John Loftus · Old Testament Ethics · Slavery · Theology
Happy Birthday Madeleine
April 2nd, 2010 8 Comments
Today is Madeleine’s 37th birthday. I write this to say to Madeleine, from myself and the kids, that we love you, we are proud of you and we hope you have a great day. Matt
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Good Friday
April 2nd, 2010 Comments Off on Good Friday
Due to extreme business we’ve not had time to write Easter posts but last year’s Good Friday: Why Celebrate Easter? is worth a read or a re-read. It remains one of our most read blog posts of all time and with good reason – Matt’s own personal faith shines through it. Also, for those in […]
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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.
