Why is the Bible So Badly Written? …Wait, What??? (Part 1)
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine messaged me on Facebook, “Did you catch the Salon article on the Bible, before it got pulled?” I said, “No, what did it say?”...
Category: Worldview
J.P. Moreland and the Book “Theistic Evolution” (Part 1: What do William Paley, Richard Dawkins, and J.P. Moreland all have in common?)
Last November, the 1,000-page Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique hit the shelves. Written by Biola professor J.P. Morelan...
Getting a Handle on the Old Testament Story (Part 2): The Kingdom of Israel to Exile to Return
King David and the Kingdom of Israel It is in the book of I Samuel where we find the Hebrews demanding to have a king. YHWH did not want them to have a king lik...
Getting a Handle on the Old Testament Story (Part 1): Merry Christmas–I’m Giving You the Gift of Old Testament Understanding!
The Old Testament is a collection of 39 books, written roughly over a span of 1,000 years, and it covers the entire history of ancient Israel. It contains narra...
The Genre, Historical Context, and Purpose of Genesis 1-11
Genesis: O Where to Begin? The book of Genesis is about beginnings: the beginning of creation, of humanity, and of civilization itself. Now, many of us in the m...
Digging Deeper into the Movie “Is Genesis History?” (Part 3): Dating Methods You Can’t Trust, and Epochs that Aren’t in the Bible
In my first two installments of my analysis of the YEC movie, Is Genesis History?, I focused first on what I felt was intentional dishonesty on the part of thos...
The Ways of the Worldviews: A “Table of Contents” For You…With Links!
I thought I’d provide this post as an overview of my entire “Ways of the Worldviews” Series. I’ve broken it up in the the various “...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 71): So, How Should We Then Live?
In his book, The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark said the following in regards to Christianity and Western Civilization: “Christianity created Western Civilizat...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 70): The 21st Century: Mounting Pressures and Crumbling Foundations
Forty years ago, Francis Schaeffer came out with How Should We Then Live? in which he provided an overview of western culture from the time of ancient Rome, up ...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 69): Postmodernism and Michel Foucault–Systems of Power
In his book, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?, James K.A. Smith discusses three major postmodern thinkers, and (in my opinion) not only successfully articulates h...