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Guest Sunday Study: Moral Perspectives on Lying

October 25th, 2009 2 Comments

Bethyada explores the morality of lying. (This guest post is part of open mic week(s)) There are a range of Christian theories on the moral acceptability of lying. The issues around lying seem difficult to fully categorise in English. The problem is a lack of simple words to express subtle differences in meaning. To illustrate […]

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Guest Post: Having a Beer… for the Glory of God!

October 18th, 2009 11 Comments

As it is still open mic (blog?!) week(s) here are MandM; here is another guest post from Jonny King who, if you have not visited his blog before, you’ll find has a rather distinctive style; he threatened to burn effigies of our blog if we didn’t publish him LOL! Having a Beer… for the Glory […]

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Sunday Study: The Bible and Rape – A Response to Michael Martin

September 27th, 2009 9 Comments

A little while ago I wrote a post criticising Michael Martin’s contention that the Bible commands a rape victim to marry her rapist, Does the Bible Teach that a Rape Victim has to Marry her Rapist? To summarise briefly, Martin cited Deuteronomy 22:28-29 and interpreted it as, Here the victim of rape is as treated […]

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Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part II

September 13th, 2009 11 Comments

In a previous post, Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part I, I discussed some translations of the sixth commandment of the Decalogue. I began with the King James Version (KJV), “thou shall not kill.”[1] I looked at problems with this translation most famously raised by Augustine. The New International Version (NIV) and New Revised […]

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Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part I

September 6th, 2009 5 Comments

One of the most well known biblical commands is the sixth commandment of the Decalogue (according to protestant enumeration). This commandment occurs in the 20th chapter of the book of Exodus and the fifth chapter of the book of Deuteronomy. In its most well-known rendition, the King James Version (KJV), this commandment states “thou shalt […]

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Sunday Study R 13: Romans, Revelations and the Role of the State

September 4th, 2009 6 Comments

In a previous post, Sunday Study: 666 The Number of the Beast, I exegeted Revelation 13’s infamous reference to the mark of the beast, in that post I argued that the first beast is a reference to Rome; a world empire, built on seven hills that ruled over all the nations of the earth at […]

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Fisking Margaret Mayman: The Flawed Moral Theology on the Smacking Referendum

July 7th, 2009 7 Comments

In “A Christian Perspective on the Child Discipline Referendum,” Rev Dr Margaret Mayman presents a theological justification for retaining the amended section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961, which has criminalised force used against a child for the purposes of parental correction. Mayman began by offering three standard arguments for repealing the old section 59, […]

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