Tag: inerrancy
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Biblical Mythbusting: A Repository of Greatest Hits
NOTE: Going forward, this article will serve as the repository for all past, present, and future biblical mythbusting articles. It will be a “living” article in that it will grow over time. If there was any article to bookmark, this would probably be the one! 😉 This week I’ve had the “pleasure” of listening to…
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Be Careful What You Ask For Church
The last few weeks have been full of intensive Bible study. (The fruits of that will bear soon in a few articles I’m working on) I cracked a smile at one point, realizing that when the church says to “study your Bible,” is that really what they want? Growing up in a conservative church, there…
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That’s Not God
People struggle to reconcile the God of the Old Testament and the God who sacrificed His own son out of love for us. Those rightly come across as two different Gods. Many have heard the same apologetics employed to get over this hurdle. What if that wasn’t God at all? Today we have a higher…
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A Heavenly Conversation
Jesus: “Hey dad, those humans are acting up again.” God: “Which of their many shenanigans are you referring to?” Jesus: “They keep demanding that the stories their own ancestors made up as mythology and etiology, are literal factual history. And they keep sweeping away all my near-exclusive teachings on the poor, the widow, and the…
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“Jonah, For Once Would You Just Think Of The Cattle?”
Have you ever had something you could not have possibly cared less about, and then wound up eventually caring greatly about that exact thing? The God of the Bible, if the text is to be assumed as univocal, certainly seems to do this. He wipes all of humanity out in a flood, then promises not…
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Why Does ____ In the Bible Have To Be Literal?
Have you ever questioned why any particular piece of traditional Biblical history must be taken as literal? Don’t overthink this. Don’t think about who else believes that, or how it’s always been taught. It’s not that deep. The question is simply why does the story itself have to be literal? Perhaps a better way of…
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God’s Feelings: Only Some are Valid?
Genesis states that we are created in God’s image and likeness. I’m not suggesting that God is in all ways like us, but He must share at least some attributes. The Bible is full of verses that testify to God having feelings, or at least that the authors of the day felt that God possessed…
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Biblical Giants. Real, Myth, or In-between?
Legends of giants have captivated people since the beginning of our ability to describe them. Legends exist in more than just the bible. Many cultures have stories of these inhumanly tall creatures. Since I was a child I was fascinated by the stories, albeit rather skeptical on their veracity. How would we not have any…
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The Unscriptural Nature of the Scriptural Inerrancy Doctrine
A few years ago my wife and I went on an Alaskan Cruise with her family. The company we went with, Norwegian Cruise Line, had all of the things you’d expect to be on a modern cruise ship. One of these, the gift shop, eventually became a rolling joke among us. It started on day…
Space For Doubt 