There is an interesting article on bibleinterp.com by Jay Williams, which I found alternately profound and amusing. Williams should be heard directly, but here I quote a couple of paragraphs after his overview of Jesus’ stark and acetic ethic.
There is little doubt in my mind that even the most fervent Protestant believers would argue that [...]
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Taking Jesus Seriously
Posted in Ethics, New Testament, tagged aceticism, bible interpretation, jay williams, jesus on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Morality, Postscript
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, tagged atheism, christopher hitchens, cornelius van til, moral argument, poythress, william buckley on November 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Vern Poythress, in Redeeming Science, says:
Even in their rebellion, people continue to depend on God being there. They show in action that they continue to believe in God. Cornelius Van Til compares it to an incident he saw on a train, where a small girl sitting on her grandfather’s lap slapped him in the face. The [...]
The Argument from Morality
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, tagged apologetics, existence of god, moral argument, natural theology, william lane craig on November 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think there are a number of good arguments for the existence of God, but I have some difficulty with a couple of them, and they’re often overused by sincere but ill-informed enthusiasts. The ontological argument, for example, just doesn’t work for me, but it’s possible that it’s an iron-clad proof and I simply don’t [...]
Jephthah’s Holocaust
Posted in Ethics, New Testament, tagged ammon, chemosh, child sacrifice, israelite, jephthah, judges, luther, lxx, moab, molech, translation, vow on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“People will have it that he did not offer her, but there it stands plainly in the text.”—Martin Luther
It was the consensus among the church fathers as well as Jewish commentators that Jephthah did indeed kill his daughter in sacrifice; and the great majority of modern biblical scholars would agree, so Luther is not alone [...]
Anachronism and Jurisprudence in the Quran
Posted in Ethics, Hebrew Bible, tagged crucifixion, islam, moses, pharaoh, quran on August 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Be sure I will cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will cause you all to die on the cross.”—Sura 7.124
The setting is a threat made by Pharaoh to his magicians, who, in this first quranic retelling of the Moses story, instantly confess their submission [al-islam] to the God of [...]
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