January 31, 2016
“Hillary Clinton will do anything to gain and hang on to power, anything…. [N]ow she is trying for the White House. She is probably more qualified for the ‘Big House’, honestly. She has escaped prosecution more times than El Chapo; perhaps Sean Penn should interview her.” — Carly Fiorina Since I skipped commenting on the […]
Tags: Allen West, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, combative moderators, Des Moines, final GOP primary debate, Iowa debate, Jeb Bush, Jim Gilmore, John Kasich, main event debate, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Mollie Hemingway, need changes to debate format, no Trump, Rand Paul, Republican primary debates, Response Action Network, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, the Federalist, undercard debate
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January 24, 2016
“Under every stone lurks a politician.” — Aristophanes Some of you may remember back in October, when I posted a table of several (potential) candidates for Speaker of the House and their scores from several thinktanks. Well, I thought it might be both fun and educational to do the same for the Presidential primary candidates […]
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Posted in Politics |
January 17, 2016
“To articulate God’s unchanging Word in the way the original authors might have said it had they been speaking in English to the global English-speaking audience today.” — Preface to NIV 2011 Most people — at least, in “the West” — know that there are several different versions or “translations” of the Bible, and most […]
Tags: Andreas Kostenberger, application, Bible translations, David Croteau, Douglas Moo, dynamic equivalence, English Standard Version, essentially literal, ESV, formal equivalence, functional equivalence, gender-inclusivity, Greek, HCSB, Hebrew, Holman Christian Standard Bible, interlinear, interpretation, literal, New International Version, New Living Translation, NIV 2011, NLT, optimal equivalence, paraphrase, Philip Comfort, Ray Clendenen, textual variants, theology, thought-for-thought, Wayne Grudem, Which Bible Translation Should I Use?, word-for-word
Posted in Religion |
January 10, 2016
I came across a fascinating New York Times opinion piece a few weeks ago. That in itself is quite unusual, since I don’t read the Times, it being known for its liberal-progressive bias and me being known for my disdain for that sort of thing. But, something else I was reading apparently made note of […]
Tags: American Dream, Anand Giridharadas, assimilation, community-minded, foreign-born vs. natural-born, immigrant advantage, immigration, initiative, isolation, naturalized citizens, New York Times, self-reliance, strong family ties
Posted in Politics |
January 3, 2016
“Newsweek‘s cover story is exactly what happens when a writer fueled by open antipathy to evangelical Christianity tries to throw every argument he can think of against the Bible and its authority. To put the matter plainly, no honest historian would recognize the portrait of Christian history presented in this essay as accurate and no […]
Tags: Al Mohler, attack on the Bible's integrity, attempt at undermining the authority and reliability of the Bible, bad history, Bart Ehrman, Bauer Thesis, biblical canon, biblical illiteracy of conservative Christians, Christmas, conspiracy theories, creation accounts, Daniel B. Wallace, Documentary Hypothesis, doublets, Genesis, historical fallacies, Hugh Ross, hypocrisy, James R. White, Kurt Eichenwald, late additions to books of Bible, liberal scholarship, manuscript transmission, misrepresentation, Nativity, Newsweek, one-sided diatribe, Pentateuch, politicians using the Bible, resolving Biblical contradictions, Resurrection, skeptical arguments, telephone game
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