MSH | January 17, 2011
I’ve posted this link over on my Naked Bible blog as well. It’s a good introduction to the topic, and pertinent to paleobabbling on the web in several ways. The myth of scroll secrecy and how “Bible believers” fear the scrolls come immediately to mind. Thanks to the ETC blog for the link! Technorati Tags: [...]
MSH | January 14, 2011
I decided to throw together a short video (9 minutes) to try and better explain/illustrate what my take on this topic is. I reference my thoughts on baptism therein — how it is divorced from salvation, just as circumcision was — and so it might be useful to skim that first. At any rate, here [...]
MSH | January 9, 2011
Let’s file this one under “What you know may not be so.” What could be more obvious than Abraham coming from the southern Mesopotamian (Sumerian) city of Ur? Plenty. Check out this three-page article I’m having my Ancient Israel students read this quarter (I periodically teach as an adjunct professor at Western Washington University). Sweet [...]
MSH | January 8, 2011
Last week my department at Logos Bible Software relocated to a new building a block away from where we were (see here and here). This gave me the opportunity (again) to comb through my library for books that I now have in electronic form. As a result, I have four items to sell at low [...]
MSH | January 8, 2011
Here we go. You’ll note by the end that I really don’t care for (or feel the need) to frame these issues they way they are typically framed. Election and Salvation The major point of my previous post on election was that it was not to be understood as synonymous with salvation. Rather, the saved [...]
