Bill Pratt | April 11, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 1, there are additional lines of evidence showing that Jesus’s disciples thought he was God. Again, this material is excerpted from theologian Norman Geisler’s book, Systematic Theology, Volume 2. Picking up where we left off, the third line of evidence is that the disciples attributed the powers of [...]
Bill Pratt | April 4, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple of years ago, I wrote seven posts on the subject of whether Jesus claimed to be God. At the end of those posts, I promised to follow up with an additional series of posts discussing whether Jesus’s disciples thought he was God. Better late than never, I suppose. Here [...]
Bill Pratt | March 24, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt If you’re reading a Bible passage, when should you start thinking about how it applies to your life? Many of us think that this is the first thing we should do after reading a passage, but I want to discourage that way of thinking. Before thinking about how a passage applies [...]
Bill Pratt | October 11, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A common misunderstanding of the Book of Genesis is how chapters 1 and 2 are related. Specifically, chapter 1 claims that land animals were created before Adam (see Gen. 1:24-26), but chapter 2 seems to claim that Adam was created before land animals (see Gen. 2:19). Is it possible that these [...]
Darrell | September 20, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Post Author: Darrell Five Point Calvinism is commonly referred to by the acronym TULIP. The “T” in TULIP stands for Total Depravity. Theopedia defines it as follows: “[E]very person born into the world is morally corrupt, enslaved to sin and is, apart from the grace of God, utterly unable to choose to follow God [...]
Bill Pratt | July 13, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the last post, we talked about how equivocal God-talk is self-defeating and how univocal God-talk lowers God to the level of a finite being. The only solution seems to be analogous God-talk. So how does analogous God-talk work? Analogous God-talk ultimately tells us what God is like, but it does [...]
Bill Pratt | July 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently some of my skeptical friends who frequently comment on the blog raised a very important issue: how do we use language when talking about God? Is God so transcendent that our words communicate nothing about him? Is the Christian God so “other” that words completely fail us? There seem to [...]
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 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 [...]
