From Genesis 4-7 The LORD is grieved over all creation. They are all evil from the heart. Except one man, who is righteous and finds his favour. Today we look at Noah and the flood. [ Read More … ]
From Genesis 1-3 In this post we have a brief look at the account of creation. The Hebrew worldview is unique. The account itself, structured. The purpose of creation, challenging. Being created in the image [ Read More … ]
Some interesting tips from the Logos blog.I don’t follow all these myself. But check em out anyway. 10. Starting without prayer 9. Studying by yourself 8. Bringing preconceptions to the text 7. Reading from only [ Read More … ]
The famous Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons 1999 experiment. In his study, the subjects watched a video of a group passing a basketball around. Half the group wore white shirts. The other half wore black. [ Read More … ]
The following illustration highlights the difference between unlikely theories which are manipulated to fit the evidence at great lengths with theories which are strongly confirmed by the evidence.
“Chinese whispers (or telephone in the United States) is a game played around the world, in which one person whispers a message to another, which is passed through a line of people until the last [ Read More … ]
Inerrancy and the recent non-apocalyptic discussion at the annual Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) As a biblical scholar who deals with the messy parts of the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament), I came away with one [ Read More … ]
Household Battles: An Infographic We all have grips over whos turn it is to do the washing up, that someones left the lid off the toothpaste or dumped dirty clothes on the floor. But a [ Read More … ]
Kevin Reynolds Achieves Resurrection Biblical epics seem all the rage at the moment, with Ridley Scott filming Exodus and Darren Aronofsky working on Noah. It was only a matter of time before somebody turned their [ Read More … ]
Recovering from inerrancy in the second half of life I met an old friend for lunch yesterday. He was, once upon a time, firmly ensconced in a career in the ueber-conservative world of “Evangelical orthodoxy”–and [ Read More … ]