July 28, 2024
I like Frank Turek. I appreciate him as a Christian apologist who is reaching a lot of people through his speaking engagements and educating via the CrossExamined Academy. But, I don’t always agree with him — sometimes in approach, sometimes in content. His understanding and handling of Calvinism and the Doctrines of Grace (i.e., Reformed […]
Tags: autonomy, CrossExamined Academy, doctrines of grace, Frank Turek, free will, James R. White, Reformed theology, Romans 5, The Dividing Line, theology lesson
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July 21, 2024
This is the fourth entry in my series citing Rescuing Inerrancy: A Scientific Defense (2023) by Dr. Hugh Ross. A few weeks ago, I watched a streaming TV series — the title of which I can’t remember, sorry — that looked at controversial archaeological finds and how they indicated scientific inquiry among ancient civilizations. Granted, […]
Tags: ancient Near Eastern religions, ANE science, astronomical knowledge, Egyptian, Eratosthenes, European, geocentricity, government-sponsored astronomers, Greek, heliocentricity, Hugh Ross, John Walton, last ice age, lunar eclipses, Mesopotamian, Neolithic Revolution, Old Testament, Peter Enns, Ptolemy, scientific inquiry by ancient peoples, solar eclipses, spherical Earth, spherical Moon, spherical Sun, stone circle observatories
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
July 14, 2024
In June of last year, I wrote a post about a particular section of The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” that dealt with Deep State bureaucracy. “Project 2025” wasn’t on a lot of people’s radar then, but it certainly is now. The Left are scared of it, and Donald Trump is even distancing himself from it. […]
Tags: correcting meme claims, Democrat claims proven false, Donald Trump, GOP, lies and misinformation, Mandate for Leadership, Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation
Posted in Politics |
July 7, 2024
This is the third entry in my series citing Rescuing Inerrancy: A Scientific Defense (2023) by Dr. Hugh Ross, which I began this past May. In this week’s excerpt, Ross addresses the ideas of “history” and “myth” in interpreting the Old Testament creation passages. How similar are these texts to those of other Ancient Near […]
Tags: ancient Near Eastern religions, ANE creation myths, biblical creation passages, biblical distinctives, biblical implications, Bruce Waltke, Christian theology, Francis Collins, Genesis, hermeneutics, history, Hugh Ross, literary genre, myth, Old Testament, Peter Enns
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