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Response to "Why One Should Read Before Writing" by R. Scott Clark
R. Scott Clark kindly responded to my previous post (link) with a post of his own (link). I write to correct a few errors in his post. 1. My State of Mind as to UnderstandingAfter a brief tangent about my pseudonymity, Prof. Clark characterizes my comments as being that I didn’t “understand how [Prof. Clark]…
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David's Two Visits to Achish
Skeptics love to try to find fault with the gospels because there are sometimes accounts that seem to be similar in some ways, but have differences. They are fond of suggesting that these differences are contradictions. In this post, I examine two accounts that have some similarities, but enough differences that if they were in…
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David’s Two Visits to Achish
Skeptics love to try to find fault with the gospels because there are sometimes accounts that seem to be similar in some ways, but have differences. They are fond of suggesting that these differences are contradictions. In this post, I examine two accounts that have some similarities, but enough differences that if they were in…
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R. Scott Clark, Religious Freedom, and Two Kingdoms
Reformed pastor and professor R. Scott Clark recently posted an article on his blog (“Religious Freedom Watch: Feds to Force Schools to Monitor Facebook?“). A reader asked me how Prof. Clark can do this while holding to the Escondido position on the two kingdoms. I should preface my response by saying that I don’t know…
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David's Two Escapes from Saul
Skeptics who wish to allege contradictions between the gospels love to claim that if there are differences between two similar accounts, this means that the two accounts contradict each other. In this post, I’ll examine a pair of accounts that are similar enough that one might think they were contradictory accounts of the same event,…
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David’s Two Escapes from Saul
Skeptics who wish to allege contradictions between the gospels love to claim that if there are differences between two similar accounts, this means that the two accounts contradict each other. In this post, I’ll examine a pair of accounts that are similar enough that one might think they were contradictory accounts of the same event,…
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Chrysostom: Sermon 5 on Lazarus (On 1 Thessalonians 4:13)
In reading through On Wealth and Poverty, providing Catharine P. Roth’s translation of six of Chrysostom’s seven sermons on the parable of Lazarus (or in reading through F. Allen’s translation of the first four of those same sermons), one may wish to see the contents of the fifth sermon on the parable of Lazarus. As…
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Background on Harold Camping
Some interesting comments on Harold Camping’s own departure from the church can be found at the following story (link to story). This was brought to my attention by the Heidelblog. The most interesting insight is how the May 21, 1988, date seems to be connected to Camping’s final time teaching Sunday School. To God be…
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Did Jesus Quote from the Apocrypha?
I introduced this short series in a previous segment (link). In brief, I’m responding to a Roman advocate who wrote under the handle or nick, “dgor.” In this segment, I’m responding to the issue of whether Jesus quoted from the Apocrypha. Up front, I should note that there are two reasons that this argument is…
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Why Cross-Examination is Essential – Illustrated
Carl Trueman pointed this out for a somewhat different reason (related to Rob Bell) – but the video below illustrates why cross-examination is so important in debates. In fact, it’s why cross-examination is the heart of live debate. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KHMO14KuJk&w=480&h=390] It also illustrates how a properly conducted cross-examination can lead the listener to the truth,…