Al Mohler has suggested that we can use a church or individual’s theology of hell as a measure of their theological liberalism. He also mentions…
Who wrote the first English statement declaring that the king or any governmental leader had no authority over the religious or non-religious convictions of the…
Recently, I have been bombarded by the concept of forgiveness. Last night, I was flipping through the channels and absolutely nothing was on television. Not…
Recently scholars NT Wright and Bart Ehrman debated one of the great theological questions of all-time – the existence of suffering balanced with the existence…
Each year at the seminary founded and chaired by John MacArthur has a faculty lecture series. This year, the series is entitled The Truth About…
Joe Carter at the EO has a really great, detailed post on Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s real problem – and by extension, Obama’s problem – the…
List Universe opened up comments on the question, Does God exist? As you might imagine, much of what came out was fruitless haranguing, but it…
This past week on the radio interview show Fresh Air with Terry Gross, evangelical-scholar-turned-agnostic Bart Erhman talked about his new book, God’s Problem: How the…
“Your book is, in my opinion, so contemptible and worthless that I feel great pity for you for having defiled your beautiful and skilled manner…
From my hermeneuticsHermeneutics (/ˌhɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/) is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, as well as philosophical texts. It…
CT has a nice article entitled Reductionist Justice, in which the author discusses the error of Job’s friends, which was to reduce all suffering to…
In Part I, I discussed how rules and regulations are often a false faith, one based on outward observances rather than inward faith. This time,…
One theologically liberal blog I read recently listed the sins of the modern church, and I thought the list was worth discussing from an evangelical…
This series contains the following posts: The Sins of the Church I – Rules and regulations The Sins of the Church II – Creeds, doctrines,…
Here’s my outline for this coming Sunday’s sermon. Any comments? Probably too long for most readers, but a few might like to parse it.
So, this past week, I received a free booklet in the mail from some cult that was trying to get me to request more information,…
Today, I had lunch with my favorite neofundamentalist pastor, Thomas. Over lunch, we discussed some things, and I wanted to record some topics and insights…
ATP has a nice article entitled For the Love of God, in which he bemoans the modern simplistic view of “God is love” – it…
I have been following and posting on a recent Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) post on Pascal’s Wager. A couple of objection to the gospel that…
Inspired by the largely free-for-all Theological Confessions meme, I thought to write one up that actually has questions. Enjoy. 1. On a scale of 1…
A recent commenter documented an impressive list of biblical "absurdities" which, in his or her mind, make the Biblical account of God seem foolish, primitive,…
There are a bevy of logical objections to the biblical timeline of the resurrection, described in all four Gospels. The answers below are courtesy of…
This post is part of a series. In Parts I and II, I outlined John MacArthur’s exposition of Romans 1, in which he revealed the process…
This post is part of a series. In Part I, I listed the five types of Wrath of God, according to John MacArthur and the scriptures. …