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Bad Election Day Hermeneutics
Yes, the successor of Judas was picked by lots (Acts 1) and so was Saul (1 Samuel 10) (as was the recently elected Coptic patriarch, unlike the supposed successors of Peter in Rome). Bad it would be bad Biblical hermeneutics to suggest that you should flip a coin to decide whom to vote for (or roll a…
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Fourth of a Thousand Responses …
My pal Steve continues: Just to review, in discussing the possibility that domestic violence might be grounds for divorce, one argument I used was an a minore ad maius argument. An a minore ad maius argument is a special type of a fortiori argument, which is, in turn, a special type of argument from (or…
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When You Ignore the Scriptures …
You get this tragic tale about a “deeply religious man” who was seriously injured by a falling crucifix (link). Isaiah 41:7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not…
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The Third of a Thousand Responses to Steve Hay's Rebuttal
My good friend Steve continued: This is confused on several grounds: i) To begin with, TFan has offered what appear to be contradictory statements on 1 Cor 7:15. In an earlier response to me, he said: Where does the Bible ever speak of a woman divorcing her husband? In 1 Corinthians 7 Paul addresses the issue…
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The Third of a Thousand Responses to Steve Hay’s Rebuttal
My good friend Steve continued: This is confused on several grounds: i) To begin with, TFan has offered what appear to be contradictory statements on 1 Cor 7:15. In an earlier response to me, he said: Where does the Bible ever speak of a woman divorcing her husband? In 1 Corinthians 7 Paul addresses the issue…
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The Second of the Thousand Responses to Steve Hays …
We pick up with new arguments by my good friend Steve: i) It’s odd that TFan also quotes the Markan and Lukan passages to establish adultery/fornication as the one legitimate ground of divorce, for those Synoptic variants lack the exceptive clauses in Matthew. This isn’t really an objection to my point. And, of course, the…