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When people say "God said it, I believe it, that settles it," I have to ask "But who interpreted it?

I'm redating my post on difficult passages in the Old Testament. I would just add that the what is being referred to as the chaos argume...

Walter : Even the most fundamentalist of Protestant inerrantists approach the bible like it is a buffet from which they take what they want ...

Did God want the Israelites to kill all the Canaanites? Or is this the response of a repentant group of Israelites who have come to realize ...

This is an argument you hear frequently. Everyone has methodological presuppositions, including methdological naturalists like Bart Ehrman. ...

Thom Stark offers a criticism of Paul Copan's defense of the Old Testament. Copan rightly notes that Susan Niditch, on her book on war i...

How can God make us free, and yet guarantee the inerrancy of Scritpure? (Or Papal Infallibility, for that matter). William Lane Craig thinks...

A redated post. I have recently read Don Williams essay in the Lewis encyclopedia on Reflections on the Psalms and find it interesting. Lewi...

Franklin Mason argues that Perfect Guide Inerrancy, as opposed to perfect truth inerrancy, is what is needed. Please do follow the link back...

First, my primary argument against Calvinism is semantic rather than moral. I think that there are biblical passages that say that God loves...

Steve responds to my paradox in the direction I thought the reply would have to go. God, with providential control over the circumstances, c...

One of the arguments in the inerrancy debate is the assertion that God cannot lie. I want to suggest that although this claim is initially i...

The fact that abandonment of a belief might result in one’s being expelled from one’s institution of education doesn’t mean that the positio...

This is something I put in the combox of the last post, but it need to be treated separately here. I think there are difficulties with Craig...

Anyone care to tackle some of these?

Matthew 19:1-9 After Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went southward to the region of Judea and into the area eas...