If you liken the entire book of Revelation to a symphony, and if chapter 1 is considered the program to the symphony, chapters 2-3 can be considered the opening overture. They consist of seven specific messages written to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Now even though they are addressed…
Alright, so after John’s introduction in 1:1-8, one thing is clear: God rules, and Christ is king—so don’t despair, even though you might be suffering persecution for your faith. Now it has to be made clear that the Apostle John knows what he’s talking about, and he reminds the churches of this in 1:9, when…
As I begin to go through Revelation, I think it would be smart to first address the pink elephant in the room: the book of Revelation is not a prediction of a future rapture, 7-year tribulation, the European Union as a revived Roman Empire, or a Third Temple in Jerusalem. Simply put, Tim LaHaye’s Left…
Whenever I taught the book of Revelation to my high school students, one of the first things I did was this. I’d take any object, put it on the table in the front of the room, and then cover it with my coat (or anything that could act as a covering). I’d then say, “I’m…
Even though I have written quite a bit on Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis this past year, even going so far as to say that young earth creationism is heretical, I feel the need to clarify just a few things, and then comment on the most recent “dust-up” in the world of Answers in…
Reading Nathaniel Jeanson and Jason Lisle’s paper, On the Origin of Eukaryotic Species’ Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity, was, to be kind, a chore. Nevertheless, after trudging through the entire 51-page, single-spaced, 26,000-word equivalent of a Marcel Duchamp painting, it was clear to me what the actual argument of the paper was. Here it is (if…
If you follow my blog regularly, you probably will have noticed that I haven’t been writing as many posts on Answers in Genesis and young earth creationism as I did last fall. The reason for that is because last fall my big “project” was writing my book, The Heresy of Ham. I’ve been able to…
In my reading and research of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis, I’ve come across quite a lot of material, so much so that I simply will not be able to include it all in the book I’m writing. Be that as it may, that doesn’t mean the material that doesn’t make the book can be…
We now come to the conclusion of my book analysis of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation. Let me say up front that I do not think Gregory was attempting to pin every ill in modern society back on the Reformation. Obviously, quite a lot of good things came out of the Reformation. And for that…
Brad Gregory’s sixth chapter in The Unintended Reformation is entitled, “Secularizing Knowledge.” In it, he looks at the modern American education system, particularly universities. To the point, the problem as Gregory sees it is that it has come to be assumed that since “religious truth claims are based on faith…they are a matter of subjective…