Category: Theology

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...

Here are three related books that have fallen into the same pile by my easy chair for two reasons: (1) They are roughly about church and politics/society. (2) I happen to already own them. (3) I'm embarking on a bit of an...

I mentioned this book on justification  a while back, saying that as soon as I got some cash I would pick it up. Well, Cathy has been reading my blog, and she picked it up for me for Christmas. A funny thing happened, though....

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 description of this book resonates with my own sentiment that neuroscience has been seriously overplayed in many areas. Another one for the list! "In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims...

If you have a Bible or theology blog please read this and please help us all get better traffic. I've recently stumbled onto a bit of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) knowledge that can help us all. The "nofollow" tag and its...

Evangelical Christians are probably most used to "Paul's version of the Gospel," as illustrated in this statement by RC Sproul, the brunt of which is: all humans have sinned against a holy God and they deserve eternal damnation....

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...

I had fun sharpening swords with Marc Cortez over at Scientia et Sapientia last week over the Christian view of personal freedom.  We might also call this the "Calvinism - Arminianism" debate to make it more easily...