Darrell | October 10, 2009
Post Author: Darrell In my last post, I discussed one of the areas where Joseph Smith plagiarized and changed verses from The Bible. Let’s take a look at another example. Chapter 12 of 2 Nephi in The Book of Mormon is taken directly from Isaiah chapter 2. However, there are a few areas where Smith made changes. Verses 8 & [...]
Category: Book of Mormon, Cults, Mormonism |
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Tags: False Prophets, Joseph Smith, LDS, Mormon, Mormonism, The Bible, The Book Of Mormon, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Bill Pratt | October 8, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 2 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 #6: Basing a Teaching on an Obscure Passage. Some passages in [...]
Category: Bible Interpretation, Difficult Bible Passages |
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Tags: Bible, Christian apologetics, Christianity, errors in the Bible, Norman Geisler, Skeptics, Tom Howe
Bill Pratt | October 6, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt This post is a little bit off the beat and path for Tough Questions Answered, but here goes anyway! A couple nights ago, famed author and speaker Gary Chapman spoke at our church about his recent research and book project. The subject was how to live a loving life. Chapman interviewed [...]
Category: Love, Morality |
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Tags: Christianity, Gary Chapman, God, Love
Bill Pratt | October 4, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 1 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 #3: Confusing Our Fallible Interpretations with God’s Infallible Revelation. The words [...]
Category: Bible Interpretation, Difficult Bible Passages |
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Tags: Bible, Christian apologetics, Christianity, errors in the Bible, Norman Geisler, Skeptics, Tom Howe
Darrell | October 3, 2009
Post Author: Darrell Isaiah chapter 40 is among my favorite chapters in The Bible. A large portion of the chapter is devoted to contrasting the Lord’s greatness with the meekness of man. Verses 6 and 7 say, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of [...]
Category: Cults, Faith and Works, Mormonism |
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Tags: Joseph Smith, Mormon, Mormonism, The Bible, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Doctrine and Covenants