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Christianity Is Based On Science and History
Everything about the Bible is scientific and historical. What I grew up very often hearing is that the Bible is not a book about science, but where it speaks it is scientific. That little homily stuck with me, but it undercuts the truth about the nature of the Bible and Christianity. There is a lot […]
Understanding 1 John and Also Its Misuse, Misinterpretation, and Perversion
The first book of the Bible that I ever studied on my own in depth in an exegetical manner was John’s first epistle, 1 John. I was a senior in high school, seventeen and then eighteen years of age. I had also translated all of 1 John in the Greek in my second year Greek […]
Kent Brandenburg and Frank Turk Debate on the Preservation of Scripture — Part One
by Kent Brandenburg On day one God spoke and there was light. When God spoke, whatever He said would come to pass. After creating Adam, God made a covenant with him (Gen. 2:16-17): Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou […]
Kent Brandenburg and Frank Turk Debate on the Preservation of Scripture
In April of 2008, I wrote this: I thought you might want to know about the debate occurring at the debate blog of one of the Pyromaniacs, Frank Turk. He challenged me to a debate on the issue of the preservation of God’s Word. I’m arguing for the perfect preservation of the NT in the […]
Preparation for the Lord’s Supper, part 1 of 6, from Wilhelmus a Brakel’s The Christian’s Reasonable Service
Wilhelmus a Brakel was a Dutch 2nd Reformation preacher–that is, essentially, a Dutch Puritan. He wrote a great 4 volume systematic theology called The Christian’s Reasonable Service, which has been made available in an indexed form online. Unlike the large majority of systematic theologies, The Christian’s Reasonable Service makes extensive application of Biblical doctrines, instead […]
God and Boxes: Does God Still Speak Audibly to Men?
On January 2, 2019, the Gospel Coalition posted a video of J. D. Greear, the present president of the Southern Baptist Convention, on which he answers the question, whether God still speaks audibly to men. It is a good, basic question a pastor or any other Christian needs to and should be able to answer. […]
Revivalism and the Prayer That “the Word of the Lord May Have Free Course”
While sitting in preaching conferences on many occasions over decades I have heard leadership ask that the preaching in the conference would have “free course.” “Free course” is exact verbiage from the King James Version in 2 Thessalonians 3:1. Does the leader mean the same thing for the conference as Paul did in 2 Thessalonians […]
What’s Coming Up Here?
Tomorrow I will publish my first post since November. I will write regular posts Monday and Wednesday with Thomas Ross on his usual Friday. The outlier here comes on late Saturdays or Sundays. Something will be published those days on alternating weeks. I will republish my debate with Frank Turk on the preservation of scripture. […]
Bart D. Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? Useful Quotes for Christians, part 2 of 4
As I mentioned in part 1, Bart Ehrman is one of the most widely-known agnostic/atheist scholars today. Despite his extreme skepticism, he effectively destroys the idea, widely promulgated by non-scholarly atheists and agnostics today, that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist, that Christ was a myth copied from pagan gods, and so on. This second […]
The “What Is Truth” Index Is Complete
Some of you have seen a number of posts appear that were nothing more than lists of links to posts or articles. All of that is the completed index. It is up to date. I am preparing also to keep it up to date, perhaps working on it once a month or so on average. […]
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