I didn’t really believe it at first, but there it was, right on my Facebook feed. Someone talking about how the lunar eclipse that happened on Tuesday. Or, in their terms, the “blood moon.” I don’t really blame them, there are people who like to stir up hysteria and they make very convincing arguments with…
Tag: New Testament
Difficult Passages: 1 Corinthians 11 (part 3)
So over the past two weeks, I’ve looked at the difficult passage of 1 Corinthians. Most of the time spent on it is focus in the first half, which last week and the week before addressed. This week, though, I’d like to examine the latter half: verses 17-34. What seems to be the issue of…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 11: Inspiration of Scripture
This is part of a series. Click here for parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, especially because it has been a while and you might like a review. So when I left off the series I had given five of the six major criteria the early church had for…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 8: The Diatessaron
Ok, I’ve been bad, really bad, about keeping up with blog posting. That’s not to say I haven’t been busy. Unfortunately, I’ve been busy writing the sort of stuff that probably wouldn’t work to well in a blog post (I doubt anyone (or more than a handful of people) wants to read a 25,000 word…
Where did our Bible Come from? Part 7: Marcion
This is part of a series. You can go back and read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 if you feel like you’ve missed something. Emerging from Conflict Last time I established the window during which the New Testament went from non-existence to formal acknowledgement of the 27 books we know as the…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 6: The window for the development of the New Testament
If you’re just joining this series, I’m currently giving a rather lengthy answer to the question of how we ended up with the books that we consider the bible. Feel free to go to the home page and click back on the previous posts which introduce this concept, state why we don’t accept various other…
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