MSH | January 18, 2010
The impact of the catastrophic earthquake last week in Haiti is still rippling through the small, impoverished country. The scale of the tragedy is still building to its full crescendo of horror. But even now the calamity prompts questions concerning the whereabouts and benevolence of God. If God is good, why do people suffer? Since [...]
MSH | January 18, 2010
Here is the last of my four-part series on Jesus and the Old Testament at Grace Church in Bellingham. MSH January 3 2010 from Grace Church Bellingham on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: Christology, deity of christ, Jesus, judaism, two powers in heaven
MSH | January 17, 2010
We now come to one of the primary points of application for the data of biblical anthropology, the mind-body problem. Before sketching the various views for you, let’s review the salient data from the biblical text. Review 1. That terms like ruach, nephesh, leb/lebab are not divisible into parts is evident from an examination of [...]
MSH | January 15, 2010
Naked Bible readers will remember I got into this issue several times during the discussion on inerrancy. It’s current again for me for two reasons. One is N.T. Wright has chimed in on the subject in this video, which I offer for the curious (I’m not inclined to care what Wright says on this subject [...]
MSH | January 14, 2010
I received the following announcement today from SBL (Society of Biblical Literature): The SBL has received an NEH planning grant to develop a website, “The World of the Bible: exploring people, places, and passages.” The site is intended for general audiences and will share scholarly views and encourage critical engagement with the Bible, including its [...]
