Biblical Studies Extravaganza! I, Joel Anderson, Have Found the SOURCE of “Q”
***NOTE: This originally was a short little piece I wrote for the Regent College newspaper back in 1997…it never got published, but it is a piece of writi...
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Memes! Memes! I Feel God Deep Down in My Memes! (Part 15: The God Delusion)
In this post, I’m going to address what Richard Dawkins specifically says about what he calls “religious memes.” If you don’t know what ...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Natural Selection, Religion, and Meme Theory (Part 14)
When I first read The God Delusion back in 2011, that was the first time I had ever come across “Meme Theory.” Now, you have probably heard the term “internet m...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”–Natural Selection and Psychosis (Part 13)
Natural Selection, YEC, GG, and ID, and Another Dawkins-Ham Connection Richard Dawkins describes natural selection as a gradual process of adaptations in life, ...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Natural Selection, I.D., and the Existence of God (Part 12)
Now that I have taken a good 3-4 weeks off from analyzing The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, I think it is time to get back to it. I have already written 11 p...
Book Review: “The Sin of Certainty” by Peter Enns
Enns, Peter. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our “Correct” Beliefs. New York: HarperOne, 2016 (211 pages + Notes) Peter En...
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Chapters 15-16–Thus Ends the Argument (Plus Some “Pro-Woman Stuff” at the End) (Part 21)
Here we come to the end of Romans, where Paul sums up his argument for unity in the Church. Romans 15:1-6 After his comments on “food and drink,” and how Jews s...
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Chapter 14–Living with the Strong and the Weak in the Church (Part 20)
The final section of Paul’s argument in Romans is found in 14:1-15:13. It deals with relationships within the community of faith. Or to put it another way, it t...
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Chapter 13–Authority (Respect it!) and Taxes (Pay it!) (Part 19)
News flash: Christians are not called to live only within their Christian community. They also have live in the real world, with pagans and secular (and sometim...
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Chapter 12–Priests, Sacrifices, and What is Good–and a Few Burning Coals (Part 18)
With all that “Gospel theology” in Romans 1-8, and then the questions regarding ethnic Israel now explained in Romans 9-11, Paul turns his attention to explaini...