Why a Commitment to Inerrancy Does Not Demand a Strictly 6,000-Year-Old Earth: One Young Earther's Plea for Realism (Part 1)
From Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal (DBSJ) 2013. Used by permission (first appearance at SharperIron in 2014).
The Bible’s Beautiful Both/And
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Bavinck insists, “To do full justice to religion, we must return to the central unity in man that is the basis for differentiating his faculties and which is in Holy Scripture designated the heart, from which proceed all expressions of life in mind, feeling, and will.” - TGC
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What is "sounding the trumpet" in Matthew 6:2
Jesus said in Matthew 6:2,
“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.”
What is your view as to what “sound the trumpet” means?
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What is “sounding the trumpet” in Matthew 6:2
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Was Moses a Plagiarist?
Archaeologists discovered several ancient Near Eastern law codes in the first half of the twentieth century. Many of the laws contained in these codes bear a striking resemblance to some of the Mosaic laws of the Old Testament. This fact has forced Old Testament critics to revise their late date for the Pentateuch (Albright, 109). But the relationship between Mosaic Law and the ancient Near East legal codes has also given rise to another form of criticism. Modern critics argue that Moses (or whoever authored the Pentateuch) received his laws from his ancient Near Eastern neighbors.
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Paul Hennebury's book is out: The Words of the Covenant: A Biblical Theology
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“I got my advance copies in the mail a couple of weeks ago. It was a strange feeling looking down at the thing I had spent over five years writing and nearly twelve years studying.” - Paul Hennebury
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Gary Chapman Doesn’t Know He’s Famous
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The Five Love Languages “will mark its 30th anniversary next year, and it’s still crushing records. It was the top-selling Christian book for much of 2021. It has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.” - C.Today
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What Lewis Had Wrong about Hell
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“Despite my love both for Lewis and The Great Divorce, this is a prime example of how his views on hell have had a negative influence on the doctrine of eternal punishment.” - Ref21
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On David Beale's new book: Christian Fundamentalism in America
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“Dr. Beale is a favorite! He thinks a lot about these topics and is well worth reading. This book is an update of his earlier work, now out of print, In Pursuit of Purity.” - Don Johnson
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What Do You Believe about the Commands in Psalm 98:4-6?
Psalm 98:4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
In this passage, God issues six commands to all the earth. What do you believe about these commands? Have they ever been fulfilled? Will they ever be fulfilled?
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What Do You Believe about the Commands in Psalm 98:4-6?
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“The doctrine of last things certainly has to reckon with all these things.”
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“The above quote comes from an interesting little paragraph in Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics….By ‘these things,’ Bavinck means the technological developments in communication up into the early 20th century.” - Ref21
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