Here in Part 5 of my analysis of Hugh Ross’ book, Rescuing Inerrancy, we will look at Chapters 17-20. Chapter 17: Recent Scientific CorroborationIn Chapter 17, Ross attempts to show how the discoveries of modern science, particularly in terms of the formation of the earth millions of years ago, corroborate the creation account in Genesis…
Here in Part 4 of my analysis of Hugh Ross’ book, Rescuing Inerrancy, we will look at Chapters 14-16. Chapter 14: Biblical Cues to the Earth’s AgeIn Chapter 14, Ross directly addresses the claims of young earth creationists like Ken Ham. In doing so, Ross makes his own argument as to why the earth is…
Here in Part 3 of my analysis of Hugh Ross’ book, Rescuing Inerrancy, we will look at Chapters 11-13. Starting in Chapter 11, Ross finally starts to address some of the issues directly tied to Genesis 1-11. Up until Chapter 11, it has all been a more generalized discussion of terms like “dual revelation,” “inerrancy,”…
Here in Part 2 of my analysis of Hugh Ross’ book, Rescuing Inerrancy, we will look at Chapters 5-9. Chapter 5: Dual Revelation and Inerrancy in Church HistoryIn Chapter 5, Ross pushes back on the claims of some recent Christian scholars that the concepts of “dual revelation” and “biblical inerrancy” and “concordance” are “recent doctrinal…
If you follow my blog regularly, and if you read my previous post, you know that a revised edition of my 2016 book The Heresy of Ham is now out. First things first—go buy ten copies and send them to friends and family. Secondly, to be honest, I wasn’t expecting it to get published so…
***I just found out today that the revised edition of my 2016 book The Heresy of Ham is already available. And so, I wanted to post this quick, initial “promotion” for it. What I’ve included below is that opening section of the book. If it catches your eye and intrigues you, please share this post…
In this final post on Jonathan Bernier’s book, Rethinking the Dates for the New Testament, I’m going to try to provide a bird’s eye overview of everything else in this book that I didn’t cover in my first two posts. Basically, everything that isn’t Mark, Matthew, Luke, Acts, John, and Revelation! Paul’s LettersFor the most…
Rethinking the Dates for the New Testament Books (Part 2) Continuing from last week’s post, today I’m going to look at Jonathan Bernier’s basic arguments in his book Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament regarding the dating of the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation. The Gospel of JohnThe traditional dating of…
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that after reading John A.T. Robinson’s book, Redating the New Testament, he was now convinced that the Synoptic Gospels were all written before AD 70. When I mentioned I hadn’t read that book, he recommended Jonathan Bernier’s more recent Rethinking the Dates of the…
In my last post, I noted a recent social media spat between Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy and Dan McClellan of Data Over Dogma. Long story short, they both got into an academic name-calling session and ended up saying very little, if at all, about the supposed reason for their feud to begin with: Did…