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Unlawful Orders and Options – Some Thoughts on Persecution
Steve Hays has already provided some excellent thoughts on the issue of unlawful orders over at Triablogue (link). In supplement of those thoughts, I wanted to add a couple of additional semi-related points. 1) Distinguishing Permitted Disobedience from Required Disobedience In some cases, when someone in authority over us commands us to do something, we…
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Review of "The Myth of Persecution" by Dr. Candida Moss
Dr. Candida Moss has provided a popular-level (as distinct from scholarly-level) account of what she calls the “myth of persecution.” Unfortunately, popular-level readers may be misled by the scholarly-style nuances that Dr. Moss uses to make her case. Nevertheless, there are a number of interesting features in her work. The overall purpose of the book…
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Candida Moss' Surprising Omission of Jesus and Hebrews' Appeal to Abel
One surprising omission from Dr. Candida Moss’ book, “The Myth of Persecution,” is discussion of Jesus’ own framework for persecution. Jesus, you recall, stated: Matthew 23:29-36 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, “If we had been in…
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What's Not to Like?
At Dave Armstrong’s blog, a post entitled: “Why is the Catholic Church so Hated?” caught my eye (to give you some background, Dave Armstrong is himself a papist). The format of the post is as follows: 1) A “Presbyterian” woman makes a claim that she sees a lot of “hatred” for “the Catholic Church.” 2)…