Zachary Arden, in a guest post at the Kiwifruit Blog, discusses the role of evidence and faith: Faith is primarily trust in God. Saving faith is not just correct doctrinal belief (for, as James notes, even the demons have this), but requires what I think of as ‘a volitional shift’ towards God. For a fallen human being to trust in…
Read more »By: Jason|15 March, 2013|Categories: Theology|Tags: divine judgment . Eric Seibert . Jesus Christ . Marcion . Paul Copan . violence
Paul Copan reviews Eric Seibert’s The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament’s Troubling Legacy: Read the whole thing here.
Read more »By: Jason|07 October, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: authority of Scripture . Bible . Credo . inerrancy . inspiration . sufficiency
The October issue of Credo is out and contains plenty of good reading. This issue is focused on the authority of Scripture and includes interviews, articles, and reviews by Thomas Schreiner, Gregg Allison, John Frame, Timothy George, Fred Zaspel, Michael A.G. Haykin, Tim Challies, Matthew Barrett, Tony Merida, Owen Strachan, J. V. Fesko, Robert Saucy, and many others. Read the…
Read more »By: Jason|07 October, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: eternal life . grace . Steve Jobs
With the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, a number of Christian writers have published tributes on the web today (John Dyer, Greg Thornbury, Mike Anderson, Al Mohler, Justin Taylor, and Joseph Gorra, to name a few). For me, Jared Wilson’s thoughts are particularly sobering: This morning I tweeted “What does it profit a man to change the world but…
Read more »By: Jason|16 September, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: Apologetics . doubt . youth ministry
- Kara Powell, on a three-year study conducted by Fuller Theological Seminary’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry. [Via: Jay L. Wile]
Read more »By: Jason|06 September, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: character of God . Conquest of Canaan . David T. Lamb . God of love . justice . religious wars
David T. Lamb, author of God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?, has written an article in the September/October issue of Relevant on the alleged incompatibility of the Old Testament wars and the Christian God. He shows why two common responses fail to resolve the problem (one offered by liberals, one offered by conservatives)…
Read more »By: Jason|05 September, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: Biblical ethics . Jesus . new testament . Paul . Paul Copan . slavery
Paul Copan continues his series on the issue of slavery in the Bible and discusses whether the New Testament writers condoned slavery.
Read more »By: Jason|05 September, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: study . Timothy Dalrymple . university . wisdom
Timothy Dalrymple offers some excellent advice to students entering university study: 1. Seek wisdom, not merely intelligence. 2. Seek mentors, not merely teachers. 3. Seek the truth, not merely prevailing opinion. 4. Seek answers, not merely questions. 5. Seek betterment, not merely achievement. 6. Seek fellowship, not merely friends. 7. Finally, seek first the kingdom and righteousness of God. Read…
Read more »By: Jason|02 September, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: biblical authority . biblicism . Jesus Christ . truthfulness of Scripture
Kevin DeYoung describes Jesus’ view of Scripture.
Read more »By: Jason|27 August, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: character of God . God . God's attributes . holiness of God . r.c. sproul . Video
R. C. Sproul’s 1985 book The Holiness of God is considered a modern classic on the topic of God’s character. Even today, Sproul’s thoughts on holiness contain important insights into a subject that can often seem distant and hard to comprehend. While no attribute of God can be neglected without cost, the Biblical portrait of God and redemptive history are…
Read more »By: Jason|27 August, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: Biblical Interpretation . difficult passages of the Bible . exegesis . The Bible
InterVarsity Press have added a helpful feature to their site: each day they are posting an entry from their book Hard Sayings of the Bible. Check it out at http://www.ivpress.com/hardsay/
Read more »By: Jason|24 August, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: Evangelicalism . Hell . Joe Fleener . judgment . salvation . universalism . unreached . wrath
Here is the audio from last month’s panel discussion between Joe Fleener and Bryan Winters on universalism and the Christian understanding of salvation: (please right click and save as) The exchange took place at Bethlehem Community Church, Tauranga, with Bryan defending universalism and Joe defending the traditional Christian approach. Special thanks to Rodney for organizing the audio. If you would…
Read more »By: Jason|21 August, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: biblical authority . Biblical Interpretation . Homosexuality . Robert Gagnon . sexual ethics . word of God
Here is an updated version of Robert Gagnon’s response to Jennifer Knust’s CNN Belief Blog post on the Bible and homosexuality. Gagnon is one of the leading evangelical scholars on the subject and his discussion of what the Bible has to say about homosexuality and same sex relationships is well worth digesting. HT: Chris Reese
Read more »By: Jason|21 August, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: Canaanite campaign . Imad Shehadeh . jihad . judgment . Old Testament ethics . Old Testament War . sin
Imad Shehadeh (Professor of Theology at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary) puts forward several reasons why we should distinguish God’s OT command to kill the Canaanites from qur’anic Jihad: From his review of Allah: A Christian Response (Themelios Volume 36, Issue 2, Aug 2011).
Read more »A good reminder from Carl Trueman (emphasis mine): Read the whole post here.
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