Category: Exegesis

I wrote this on a discussion board where we were talking about how the Bible applies to various controversies. Since these days I'm struggling to keep up with the blog, I thought: "this is brilliant! I'll just repost...

Being the biblically oriented kind of guy I am, I have always been a bit stand-offish about the doctrines of omnipotence (God can do all things), omniscience (God knows all things) and omnipresence (God is everywhere).  It's not...

[caption id="attachment_3843" align="alignright" width="140" caption="This is P52, the former earliest fragment of the NT"][/caption] I am the nerdy New Testament kind of guy who day dreams about new ancient manuscripts being...

Yesterday I headed up to Regent College with some friends to hear Scott McKnight expound on the meaning of the gospel in a provocatively sub-titled conference, "How the Plan of Salvation Obscures the Gospel." I was generally...

We have been reading The Lord of the Rings as a family and we are currently approaching the Cirith Ungol with Frodo, Sam and Golum. Cathy does a great job with the voices and characters and most nights when she finishes there is...

Just finished Ben Witherington's new little book, Is there a Doctor in the House? It has a bit of the feel of a reminiscence but is mainly advice for younger folk who are thinking about becoming Christian scholars. It is...

Farewell Rob Bell: we've moved on to other controversies now. In the latest Norm Geisler has taken up once again the standard of "defender of Orthodoxy, with particular reference to innerancy." Last year Mike Licona wrote a...

The Prodigal Son An interesting post over at Andrew Perriman's blog complains about the tendency of preachers to use the parable of the prodigal son as a salvation message. Perriman's point is that this parable, along with...

The next time I have a few bucks, Justification: Five Views is the book I'm buying. Not only is it very timely given the debates these days between traditional reformed views and NPP (New Perspective on Paul), as probably...

Here are my notes from a talk I did yesterday on the question of whether the Bible teaches that Jesus is God. These are the points I made in brief: Christians generally will affirm that Jesus is to be equated with God, but...