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Did the Biblical Authors Picture the Earth as a Flat Disk and the Sky as a Solid Dome?

Peter Enns assumes there was a dominant world-picture or cosmology in the ancient Near East, and Paul Seely published several articles advocating the idea that the earth is a flat disk and the sky a solid dome in Westminster Theological Journal. In a comment on an earlier post, Steve Hays has drawn attention to an …

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Posted byJMHNovember 7, 2011November 6, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, History, Inerrancy43 Comments on Did the Biblical Authors Picture the Earth as a Flat Disk and the Sky as a Solid Dome?

Three Objections Enns Makes to Mohler: Apparant Age, Authority, and World-Picture

Al Mohler rejects the truth claims of a religion that Peter Enns is trying to syncretize with Christianity, and  in two posts Enns makes three objections. First, objecting to the idea that the earth was created with apparent age, Enns writes: “Apparent age” is an arbitrary claim that makes the “facts fit the theory.” Look …

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Posted byJMHNovember 4, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events94 Comments on Three Objections Enns Makes to Mohler: Apparant Age, Authority, and World-Picture

Peter Enns on Paul, Adam, and Evolution

February 9, 2011 was a great day for the Hamiltons, as my sweet wife gave birth to our fourth child. Praise God. Meanwhile, over on the left coast Peter Enns was giving a lecture at Westmont College, and in the lecture he refers to Westmont as a left-wing California-style evangelical school. In preparation for a …

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Posted byJMHNovember 4, 2011November 5, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Biblical Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events53 Comments on Peter Enns on Paul, Adam, and Evolution

Abortion Clinic Workers Plead Guilty to Murder

Jay Norlinger has the details: In Impromptus today, I touch on an untouchable subject: abortion. Two abortion-clinic workers in Philadelphia have pleaded guilty to murder. Why? Well, because they did the job after the babies happened to slip out of the womb. That’s a very fine line, don’t you think? Too fine for moral reasoning.

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Posted byJMHOctober 31, 2011Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events1 Comment on Abortion Clinic Workers Plead Guilty to Murder

NIV 2011 Removes Selah from the Biblical Text

Rod Decker has drawn attention to the fact that the NIV 2011 puts the term Selah in the footnotes rather than in the text of the Psalms, and he suggests that the word should never be verbalized by those who read Scripture aloud. I like Rod Decker, but I think his post may be self-contradictory …

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Posted byJMHOctober 26, 2011October 27, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Inerrancy, Manuscripts, Translation Philosophy50 Comments on NIV 2011 Removes Selah from the Biblical Text

2011 Appalachia Conference on Theology and the Church

If you’re in West Virginia or surrounding areas, you won’t want to miss the 2011 Appalachia Conference on Theology and the Church hosted by Randolph Street Baptist Church Theme: “The Centrality of the Gospel” Speakers: Phil Johnson & Burk Parsons Date: November 4&5, 2011 Location: Charleston, WV Details.

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Posted byJMHOctober 17, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events

Axl Rose: Adopted Son of a Pentecostal Preacher

David Zahl has a theological interpretation of Axl Rose and Guns N Roses in three parts. Here’s a snippet from the first: So Axl is sadly the product of the worst kind of religion: ultra-bootcamp Pelagianism compartmentalized to the point of cruelty (not to mention completely at odds with its founder). It wouldn’t be a …

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Posted byJMHOctober 13, 2011Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, History1 Comment on Axl Rose: Adopted Son of a Pentecostal Preacher

“Jabberwocky” Proves the ESV Isn’t Too Difficult

What does Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” have to do with the ESV not being too difficult a translation for people to understand? Much in every way! Before I explain, let me invite you to enjoy Carroll’s foray into sniglets (words that don’t appear in the dictionary but should) and logatomes (made-up words that obey phonotactic …

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Posted byJMHSeptember 26, 2011Posted inArt, Attempts at poetry, Bible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Translation Philosophy33 Comments on “Jabberwocky” Proves the ESV Isn’t Too Difficult

Is Biblical Theology a Bridge?

Brevard Childs writes (481), “the major function of Biblical Theology is to provide a bridge for two-way traffic between biblical exegesis and systematic theology’s reflections on the subject matter.” Here’s my view (“Biblical Theology and Preaching,” 199) of what we’re after when we do biblical theology: “When we do biblical theology we are trying to …

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Posted byJMHSeptember 20, 2011September 16, 2011Posted inBiblical Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship5 Comments on Is Biblical Theology a Bridge?

Schreiner Reviews Webb

I love reading reviews written by Thomas R. Schreiner. He is patient, charitable, and insightful. Here are two paragraphs from his review of William Webb’s book on corporal punishment in the Bible: “The key question, however, is whether Webb is right about corporal punishment. The answer is no. First, Webb doesn’t understand redemptive history, even …

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Posted byJMHSeptember 12, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Biblical Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship2 Comments on Schreiner Reviews Webb

A Biblical Theology of Gender and Marriage

The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is hosting an event on Gender in the 21st Century in Heritage Hall on the SBTS campus tomorrow, Monday, August 22, 2011. They’re giving away iPads and such to entice people to come. The event begins at 9am with Lig Duncan – you won’t want to miss him. …

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Posted byJMHAugust 21, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events7 Comments on A Biblical Theology of Gender and Marriage

Denny Burk’s Sermon on Homosexuality

On Sunday, July 17, 2011, Denny Burk preached a powerful, timely sermon at Kenwood Baptist Church: “How Do We Speak about Homosexuality?” If you haven’t heard it, you need to give it a listen. Denny had three points: Speak the truth. Speak the gospel. Speak humility. In the introduction Denny tells the tragic story of …

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Posted byJMHAugust 10, 2011August 8, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship, Preaching, Sermon Audio1 Comment on Denny Burk’s Sermon on Homosexuality

Congrats to Dan Phillips on The World-Tilting Gospel

Dan Phillips’ book, The World-Tilting Gospel, like N. D. Wilson’s Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl, brings to mind the first line of the refrain in “Fireflies” by Adam Young of Owl City: “I’d like to make myself believe That planet earth turns slowly . . .” Though we don’t perceive its rapid progress, the earth isn’t …

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Posted byJMHAugust 9, 2011August 6, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Books, Cultural Engagement3 Comments on Congrats to Dan Phillips on The World-Tilting Gospel

Three Reasons To Think the Earth Is Young

Wayne Grudem and others hold that the earth is old, but I’m unconvinced by their arguments for that position. Most prominent for me are two observations on textual details from Genesis and the way I want to interpret science and archeology from the biblical text rather than re-interpreting the biblical text in light of science …

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Posted byJMHAugust 8, 2011August 8, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, History70 Comments on Three Reasons To Think the Earth Is Young

Interview on Revelation

The good folks at Randolph Street Baptist Church have posted a discussion between me and their pastor, Jason McClanahan, on Revelation. Questions include: Why is Revelation important for us today? What is John’s primary purpose in the book of Revelation? What are the most common errors in interpreting or handling Revelation? Can you summarize the …

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Posted byJMHAugust 1, 2011July 28, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Biblical Theology, Cultural Engagement, Eschatology

God Wins: An Interview with Mike Wittmer on His Response to Rob Bell

Credit where credit is due: the title of this post comes from Mike’s answer to the last question in this interview.  Mike Wittmer’s book Christ Alone was written in response to Rob Bell’s Love Wins, and Wittmer’s book appeared within one month of the release of Love Wins. In this book Wittmer models charity and …

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Posted byJMHJuly 25, 2011July 24, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Books, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship, Evangelism and Apologetics, History3 Comments on God Wins: An Interview with Mike Wittmer on His Response to Rob Bell

Gay Marriage Bullies Its Way Forward

Maggie Gallagher writes about the way intimidation is putting the chill on First Amendment rights (death threats have a way of doing that), and Denny Burk points to a case that shows how gay marriage crushes individual religious liberty.

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Posted byJMHJuly 20, 2011Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events3 Comments on Gay Marriage Bullies Its Way Forward

N. D. Wilson, “Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl”

Here’s a preview of the dvd based on the book:

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Posted byJMHJune 22, 2011Posted inArt, Attempts at poetry, Books, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Evangelism and Apologetics, Philosophy4 Comments on N. D. Wilson, “Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl”

Whittaker Chambers on Communists and Liberals

Whittaker Chambers’ book Witness is a thrilling spy story, an autobiographical conversion narrative, and a piercing look into the communist underground. Written with fervor, clarity, and solemn joy, Chambers is a prose stylist urging that we choose life. For Chambers, what separates communists and liberals is not a difference in belief. What separates them is …

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Posted byJMHJune 17, 2011June 15, 2011Posted inBooks, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Great Quotes, History, Philosophy

Whittaker Chambers on Why Men Become Communists

I was unimpressed with The Communist Manifesto, so I found Whittaker Chambers’ Witness very helpful for understanding why men become communists. Why do people become communists? What do liberals really want? What makes them tick? As I seek to understand people and answer these questions, what I find is that everything liberals and communists want …

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Posted byJMHJune 16, 2011June 15, 2011Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, Great Quotes, History, Philosophy3 Comments on Whittaker Chambers on Why Men Become Communists

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