Reading Time: 12 minutes When I was in college I used to get so perturbed by my Bible professors because they all seemed so annoyingly liberal. It was a shock to my system, since I grew up Southern Baptist and since the school I was attending was a Baptist college as well. Our religion professors were far more liberal than any […]
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On the Skepticism of the Resurrection (part 3)
Reading Time: 10 minutes Having looked at points 1) and 2) it is time to see if there is a more plausible explanation for the data from a naturalistic perspective than the Christian claims. Before setting out the positive case, I want to spend a little time going over some of the data from the Gospels and how they are problematic. Really, this belongs in the first post under point 1), but it sort of required its own post for reasons of length.
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Guest post: Peter reviews Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God”
Reading Time: 5 minutes Modern day Christians hold that Jesus and God are one. The Athanasian Creed for instance holds that “…there is one Person of the Father; another of the Son; and another of the Holy Ghost.
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500 Eyewitnesses to the Risen Christ? 9 Reasons Why It’s Not Likely.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The apostle Paul claims that 500 people saw Jesus alive after his crucifixion. This claim is popular among apologists who imagine this as strong evidence that the crucifixion is historical. However, this argument crumbles under scrutiny.
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Free Will: The Achilles Heel of Christianity
Reading Time: 4 minutes An online friend of mine whom has a real interest in the concept of free will, and all the problematic baggage it brings with it. He has a proclivity for producing adverts for newspapers and publications like Free Inquiry that concern themselves with this erroneous philosophical belief. Here is one such piece from the Free Inquiry which does a good job of summing up the issues with an account of libertarian free will, and how that works in the context of Christianity. Let me know what you think.
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Failed Ambassadors.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Ephesians 6 makes a startling declaration for Christians, and one that most of them totally ignore. We’re going to talk briefly today about what it means to be an ambassador. In this chapter, the author (believed by most–but hardly by all–to be Paul) talks about dressing up like an old-school warrior, with a breastplate, shield, […]
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500 Eyewitnesses to the Risen Christ? Not Likely.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The apostle Paul claims that 500 people saw Jesus alive after his crucifixion. This claim is popular among apologists who imagine this as strong evidence that the crucifixion is historical. However, this argument crumbles under scrutiny.
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A Critique of 1 Corinthians 15
Reading Time: 4 minutes This chapter in Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth makes perhaps Paul’s clearest summary of Christian theology, but Paul’s views don’t match those of many Christians.
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What Does the New Testament Say about Homosexuality?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Several passages from the New Testament are often cited to condemn homosexuality, but these sources undercut their own credibility.
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Biblical Marriage: Not a Pretty Picture
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do the Bible and the Church make a clear and unambiguous declaration that marriage is between a man and a woman? Nope. Let’s celebrate marriage, but let’s not delude ourselves about how recent our view of marriage is.