Bill Pratt | October 29, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some in the evangelical community dismiss the science that shows the universe is old (almost 14 billion years), and I think partly because they never considered the reasons why scientists make this claim. I am not a physicist or an astronomer, but I am an electrical engineer, so I had to [...]
Darrell | October 27, 2009
Post Author: Darrell In the most recent LDS General Conference, Jeffrey R. Holland gave an impassioned talk regarding The Book Of Mormon. As defense for the truthfulness of The Book Of Mormon, Holland cites the fact that he has yet to hear of any acceptable explanation for its origin aside from God. First of all, I vehemently [...]
Bill Pratt | October 27, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt A few months ago, the History Channel trumpeted the missing human link, Ida. Ida is a 47 million year old fossil that was claimed to be a human ancestor. At the time, I wrote a blog post shaming the scientific community for making sensationalistic claims like this. The evidence from the [...]
Bill Pratt | October 26, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt We don’t know. Scholars divide sharply on this issue, although it seems that the majority of New Testament scholars believe that verses 9-20 were not part of the original Gospel written by Mark. Why? Because the two oldest manuscripts containing Mark’s Gospel (Sinaiticus and Vaticanus) do not contain these verses, church [...]
Bill Pratt | October 22, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Darrell and I were talking today about people who claim that one interpretation of Scripture can be no better than another. Or, put another way, we can’t know what the correct interpretation of Scripture is, so we shouldn’t debate it. To each his own interpretation. My sense is that people who [...]
Bill Pratt | October 20, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Pope Benedict XVI has decided to make it easier for Anglicans who have become disaffected with liberalism in their communion to join the Roman Catholic Church. Below is a quote from a Wall Street Journal article: Pope Benedict XVI introduced a fast track for Anglicans seeking to join Roman Catholicism, a [...]
Bill Pratt | October 19, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 5 of this series, we now turn to the final three mistakes critics make when alleging errors in the Bible. These mistakes are taken from Norman Geisler and Tom Howe’s The Big Book of Bible Difficulties. Mistake #15: Forgetting that Only the Original Text, Not Every Copy of [...]
Bill Pratt | October 17, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I’ve touched on this topic before, but it continues to interest me, so I thought I would cover some new ground on this important section of the New Testament. Context, when reading any passage of the Bible, is crucial to understanding it. When we look at the context of Romans 9-11, [...]
Bill Pratt | October 14, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 4 of this series, we now turn to more of the mistakes critics make when alleging errors in the Bible. These mistakes are taken from Norman Geisler and Tom Howe’s The Big Book of Bible Difficulties. Mistake #11: Presuming that the Bible Approves of All it Records. Not [...]
Bill Pratt | October 12, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 3 of this series, we now turn to more of the mistakes critics make when alleging errors in the Bible. These mistakes are taken from Norman Geisler and Tom Howe’s The Big Book of Bible Difficulties. Mistake #8: Assuming that a Partial Report is a False Report. Sometimes [...]
