Welcome to Part 4 of my book analysis series of Esther Hamori’s new book, God’s Monsters. In this post, we are going to look at Hamori’s take on angels in the Bible. Hold on tight. Chapter 4: The Destroyer and Other AngelsFor the sake of brevity, allow me to first summarize Hamori’s basic thesis regarding…
Welcome to Part 3 of my book analysis series of Esther Hamori’s new book, God’s Monsters. In this post, we are going to look at Hamori’s take on “The Adversary” (i.e. SATAN) in her chapter 3. Chapter 3: The AdversaryAs is should be coming apparent thus far in this book analysis series, Hamori’s “modus operandi”…
Welcome to Part 2 of my book analysis series of Esther Hamori’s new book, God’s Monsters. But first, a shameless plug: The Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Reader’s Guide to the New Testament is a culmination of the past 25 years of my life in Biblical Studies. Back in 1995-1997, I went to Regent College in Vancouver,…
Earlier this Fall, on October 31, to be exact, biblical scholar Esther J. Hamori came out with her book, God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible. On Amazon, the book has gotten scores of five-star reviews. Everyone from Bart Ehrman, Cornel West, and many others have endorsed the…
Yesterday morning, I came across this short article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali in which she has announced that she has now become a Christian. Within the last day, it seems this announcement has garnered quite a lot of attention on reactions on social media. Ali grew up in a Muslim in Somalia and eventually Kenya…
A few short weeks ago, the Fight, Laugh, and Feast Convention was held at Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter in Kentucky. I was alerted to it on one of the creation/evolution Facebook groups I have followed ever since I wrote my book The Heresy of Ham back in 2016. I don’t write much anymore about Ken…
A few days ago, I came across the following quote from conservative economist Thomas Sowell: “One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires – and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who…
Once again, it has been over a month since my last post. It is amazing how busy things get when you are a high school teacher again at the start of a school year. Not only does teaching keep you busy, but I got sick early on…then an ear infection…then I had to deal with…
I haven’t written anything on my blog for about a month. The reason for that is a combination of things. This summer was “the summer of putting the house back together” after the tornado of March 31! There has been a lot of contacting window guys, driveway guys, roofers, etc., and it just takes up…
Here we now are, at my final post in this short series in which I am briefly looking at Evangelicalism’s tendency to say that Evangelicalism is going down the tubes, is a disaster, is a corruption of the faith, and is a wayward movement. In my last two posts, I attempted to give a general…