The church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome is the location of Michelangelo’s famous sculpture of Moses. The unusual thing about this sculpture is that Moses has two horns on his head. The reason for this odd depiction can be found in Jerome’s translation in the Latin Vulgate of Exodus 34:29, particularly the Hebrew…
Just as the music group The Doors once sang, “This is the end!” Welcome to my final post in my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Said So. Before my concluding comments to the whole book, though, I have to first cover chapters 18-19. 18: The Bible Says to Beware the Mark of…
It’s turning out my initial 5-part book analysis is going to end up being 8 posts. Oh well. Here in this post of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So, I’m going cover chapters 16-17. 16: The Bible Says the Messiah Would Be Born of a VirginChapter 16 deals with Isaiah…
In this sixth…yes, sixth…entry of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So, I’m going to do my best to give a tour of chapters 13-15. Over this past week, as I’ve written these posts on The Bible Says So, I hope a couple of things have stood out. First, the claim…
In this fifth entry of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So, I’m going to do my best to give a tour of at least chapters 9-12. Let’s see it…if I can do it! 9: The Bible Says Satan is God’s EnemyI’m going to give a spoiler alert to this topic:…
Welcome to Part 4 of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So. Let’s just jump right back into Chapter 6 and see how far we get in this post. 6: The Bible Says God Had a WifeThe issue regarding whether or not the Bible says God had a wife is easy…
Welcome to Part 3 of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So. Let’s just jump right back into Chapter 3 and see how far we get in this post. 3: The Bible Says God Created the Universe Out of NothingEleven years ago, I was dealing with a certain fundamentalist YECist headmaster…
As I go through The Bible Says So by Dan McClellan, I will essentially be having a “conversation” with it—a running commentary, if you will. Now, there are 19 chapters in the book, so there is no way I will be able to provide a completely in-depth analysis of every chapter without ending up writing…
Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to write an extended book analysis of Dan McClellan’s new book, The Bible Says So. In all honesty, I fear that I am not going to enjoy writing it. I also fear I might get snarky at times. I have occasionally written about various videos McClellan…
As fate would have it, over this past week while I have been writing two posts inspired a couple things Peter Enns posted regarding MAGA pastors and the issue of partisanship, I have also begun reading Dan McClellan’s new book, The Bible Says So? Recently, he did some sort of podcast with Enns about his…