MSH | June 18, 2009
Just wanted to direct you to a new interactive post on the Bible Study Magazine website. It’s an article I did for the magazine (a popular magazine, but it has a lot of content beyond what you’d get in popular Christian magazines). I’m one of the editors. We ran a themed issue on Goliath and [...]
MSH | June 11, 2009
Time to get back to Romans 5:12. My first complaint about the misuse of this passage concerned how creationists (of the literal, 24 hr. day variety) use this verse to argue against the possibility of ANY death before the Fall. This in turn is used to argue against the fossil record / any view of [...]
MSH | June 3, 2009
Here’s another article to file under contextualizing the Bible with respect to its literary conventions. If you’re like me, you’ve heard Christian apologists say something like “the New Testament resurrection stories are like nothing in the ancient world,” a statement usually made to convince us that the resurrection was a bodily one. Now, I believe [...]
MSH | June 2, 2009
My wife has been bugging me to start a Facebook page. Last night I caved.
