Throughout Part 1 of Against Heresies, Irenaeus gives long, detailed, and extremely confusing explanations of all the teachings of the various Gnostic heretical schools that were around at the time. I gave a truncated “Reader’s Digest” overview of the basics of many of the Gnostic systems in Part 1 of this blog series. What I…
Here in Part 3 of my series on Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I’m going to focus Chapter 10 of Book 1, where, after detailing the particulars of Gnostic teachings in the first nine chapters, he contrasts all that with the unity and core teaching of the Apostolic Church. Now, there are many so-called scholars these days…
Over this past year, as I have been reading and paraphrasing Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I knew that I was going to do a blog series on it. Now, here I am, reading to go through this amazing work of one of my favorite early Church Fathers. To tell you the truth, it is a bit…
Over this past year of 2025, I have been engaged in a personal project involving reading through the two works of Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies and On the Demonstration of Apostolic Preaching, and then condensing and paraphrasing them into more readable English than the formal academic translations that are out there. I started this…
As Jim Morrison famously sang, “This is the end!” Over these past two weeks, I have taken a tour through Kipp Davis’ recent book, God’s Propaganda. I’ve tried to acknowledge points with which I agree, and although I have been obviously snarky and sarcastic at times over some of his claims that I find simply…
Are we at Part 7 already? Hopefully, this will be my next to last post on Kipp Davis’ book, God’s Propaganda. By now, I think I’ve emphasized enough what lies at the root of my criticism of many of Davis’ claims. On a lot of specific observations, we agree, but where he and I radically…
Welcome back, boys and girls! We have now come to Part 6 in our look at Kipp Davis’ God’s Propaganda: Pulling Back the Curtain on What the Bible Wants You to See. In this post, we will try to bite off the next two chapters in Davis’ book. Chapter 11: PropagandaAfter giving his own “origin…
We continue on in our look at Kipp Davis’ God’s Propaganda: Pulling Back the Curtain on What the Bible Wants You to See. Chapter 8: Knowledge, Sex and DeathChapter 8 is really all about Adam and Eve in Genesis 2-3. Davis characterizes these chapters, along with Genesis 1-11 as a whole, as an “anti-urban polemic”…
Here we come to the next two chapters in the second section of Kipp Davis’ God’s Propaganda: Pulling Back the Curtain on What the Bible Wants You to See. We will be looking at Chapter 7, “Cosmos” and Chapter 8, “Knowledge, Sex and Death.” Let’s jump in. Chapter 7: CosmosChapter 7 primarily deals with the…
In my last post on Kipp Davis’ God’s Propaganda: Pulling Back the Curtain on What the Bible Wants You to See, I covered Davis’ first major section, “The Known World,” which consisted of four chapters, most of which, to be honest, was rather dry. The only thing I felt worth critiquing was Davis’ take on…