Bill Pratt | August 13, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Someone recently asked me about slavery in the Bible, and I decided it was time to take this topic on. In order to stay focused, I want to answer a very specific question: does God support the institution of slavery in the Torah (first five books of the Old Testament)? The [...]
Bill Pratt | March 5, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Eilat Mazar has potentially made another astounding discovery. She has unearthed a section of an ancient city wall of Jerusalem which she believes dates from the tenth century B.C. and would have been built by King Solomon. According to Biblical Archaeology Review, “If Professor Mazar is correct about the dating, then [...]
Bill Pratt | September 15, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some Christians and many skeptics of Christianity take a simple approach to reading the Bible. They treat the entire Bible and all of its contents as a moral command textbook. In other words, every single sentence is to be read with an eye toward what moral behavior the author is sanctioning [...]
Bill Pratt | May 3, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The fifth way is that Jesus Claimed to Have Equal Authority with God. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. In the New Testament, Jesus places his words on an equal footing with God’s. Following [...]
Bill Pratt | April 28, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The fourth way is that Jesus Claimed to Be God by Accepting Worship. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. The Old Testament clearly forbids worship of anyone except God (Ex. 20:1–5; Deut. 5:6–9). The [...]
Bill Pratt | April 24, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The third way is that Jesus Claimed to Be Messiah-God. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. There are indications in the Old Testament that the prophesied Messiah would be divine. When Jesus, therefore, confirmed that [...]
Bill Pratt | April 22, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The second way is that Jesus Claimed to Be Equal with God. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. Jesus claimed the prerogatives of God several times in the gospels. He said to a paralytic, [...]
Bill Pratt | April 20, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. First, Jesus Claimed to Be Yahweh, or the God of the Old Testament. I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series, so when you see quotes, that is where they are from. So how did Jesus claim to [...]
