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4 Shocking Reasons the Bible is Unique (Reason 3)
So far in this short series on why the Bible is unique among the spiritual writings of the world religions, we have seen that the Scriptures reveal human mimetic rivalry and the scapegoat mechanism,...
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Jesus as the Hermeneutical Trump Card in Scripture
When people seek to defend the idea that God is violent “because the Bible says so,” what they are really doing is allowing the violent portrayals of God in the Bible to override and trump the loving...
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Why Atheists are the True Worshipers of God … (and a Call for Christian...
People often assume that we must determine whether or not God exists before we can raise the question of what this God is like. In other words, why bother with the question of the nature, attributes,...
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Are Greg Boyd and I arguing the same thing?
A couple weeks ago, I announced that I was giving up on my proposal (…again). Then Chuck McKnight alerted me to this video interview of Greg Boyd by Nate Cunningham. The video should start at the 13:40...
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Redoing My Theology
I realized the other day why I am having such a struggle writing this book on the violence of God in the Old Testament. The reason is because the process of grappling with this issue is requiring me to...
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Drunk with Blood: God’s Killings in the Bible
As I continue to write on how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, I am always shocked whenever I run into a Christian who thinks the Bible isn’t violent. I want to ask them if they...
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Did God Drown the Egyptian Army?
The following post contains a proposal about how to understand the violence of God in drowning the Egyptian army. I am publishing it for your input and feedback. I think that maybe what I have...
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A Theological Shibboleth about the Violence of God
Do you know what a Shibboleth is? You might have heard the term and not known where it comes from… In modern usage, a shibboleth is an idea, practice, belief, or custom which differentiates one group...
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Sometimes the Bible is our own worst enemy
Be careful not to quote too much Scripture to an atheist… because he or she may start quoting Scripture right back! There are a lot of verses in the Bible that seem downright, well, anti-biblical. Or...
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Does Jesus Drown Babies?
Remember Andrea Yates? She is the mother who, in 2001, drowned her five children in a bathtub. She said that the devil had influenced her children, and so they needed to die. A few years later, another...
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