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Flat Earth Problems
I hear the “NASA lies” claim a few times from Flat Earth people, and it makes me wonder: does anyone actually believe Flat Earth views? For months I’ve been hearing about such positions, but I assumed that these were just atheist trolls having fun on the Internet. Apparently, that’s not the case. So, here are…
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Podcast Questions?
Does anyone have any questions that they would like me to address on my upcoming podcast? To God be the Glory!
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Reason for Corruption?
One possible reason for corruption of the patristic church was the influence of outside religions, particularly the idol-heavy pagan religions: C. Guignebert, in an illuminating article, [FN 59] points out that for the first five centuries many converts from paganism to Christianity lived a sort of double religious life, which made them what he calls…
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Responding to Tyler Vela on Genesis 1
Tyler Vela has some “Responses to Common YEC Arguments” to which I offer the following rebuttal points. The common argument is in bold, Tyler’s response is quoted, and my response follows Tyler’s comments. 1. OEC’s are intimidated by secular scientists and so they reject what they know the text says. This is condescending at best.…
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Henry Newcome on Ignatius and Transubstantiation
Henry Newcome, in 1705, tackled the question of Ignatius and Transubstantiation, in response to a Roman Catholic priest identified as T.B.: He begins with Ignatius, concerning some Heretics, (Ignatius’ Epistle to the Smyrneans) that received not Eucharist or Oblations, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the Flesh of Christ. (T. B. Section 1)…
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Dr Joe Mizzi on Ignatius and Transubstantiation
Dr Joe Mizzi has an interesting article (link to article) on the church fathers and transubstantiation, which includes the following: Ignatius Ignatius argued against the Gnostic Docetists. They denied the true physical existence of our Lord; thus they also denied his death and resurrection. Ignatius wrote: They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because…
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Problems in Doctrines and Covenants: Discovery and Naming of Egypt
Doctrine and Covenants, Book of Abraham 1:23, states: The land of Egypt being first discovered by a woman, who was the daughter of Ham, and the daughter of Egyptus, which in the Chaldean signifies Egypt, which signifies that which is forbidden; There are a number of issues here. a) Egyptus The -us ending is typical…
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Muller on Turretin and Textual Criticism – Follow-Up Response to Jeff Riddle (and company)
Our brother in Christ, Jeff Riddle, provided a follow-up post (link to post) responding to my previous post (link to post) to him. Unfortunately, brother Riddle’s post entirely misses the main point of my response. I argued: Moreover, methodologically, Turretin agrees with JW. For example, Turretin endorses the approach of using the collation of various…
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Responding to Jeff Riddle – Regarding James White and (the real) Turretin
Our brother in Christ, Jeff Riddle (JR), has posted some comments regarding James White (JW) and the real Francis Turretin (FT), which because I’m a friend of the former and a fan of the latter, I would like to address: JR wrote: 1. JW typically confuses the TR and Majority text position with KJV-Onlyism. Furthermore,…
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Three Days and Three Nights – Hebrew Idiom for Three Consecutive Calendar Days
Jonah’s use of “three days and three nights” repeated by Jesus in prophesying his own death, burial, and resurrection has led to some confusion. As you may recall, in Jonah, it is written: Jonah 1:15-17So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. Then the…