The Acts of Thecla and Notions of Gender
A few Mondays ago we completed our analysis of the two major story arcs in the Acts of Thecla. Today we’ll take some time to recap the two previous posts.
The first arc of the Acts of Thecla serves to introduce Paul and Thecla and to begin the critique of the opponents of the writer’s community. [...]
Loan words and OT Dating
Our very own Hank, from Think-Wink, linked to בלשנות (balshanut), which is a biblical linguistics blog, on the topic of loan words in the Hebrew Bible. There the claim is made that:
Some scholars have argued that Biblical Hebrew was never a fully spoken language, but was an artificial literary language created by post-exilic scribes. For [...]
Shower Question of the Day: Jesus and Women
Does the BC position ever use anything from Jesus to support their claims? If not, what does that mean for their theology?
I was thinking about that this morning as I was wondering about the merits of ESF’s claim that Christianity developed from the Jesus movement into the Early Missionary movement and then into a group [...]
Individual Communion: A Contradiction in Terms
We took communion today at church. That I’ve noted it tells you how rare an occasion this actually is. For being a democratic people who put emphasis on the priesthood of every believer, we Baptists are really pretty hierarchical about who can lead the serving of the communion. As we’ve been without a pastor for [...]
Annihilationism vs Eternal Conscious Suffering Series at Parableman
Wink, over at Parableman, has put up and interesting series that I have not had made the time to for fully read through on Annihilationism vs Eternal Conscious Suffering.
Here are the posts up so far:
The Annihilationism Debate
Infinite Suffering: contra tradition
Avoiding the plain meaning
Complete Harmony: contra Annihilationism
Infinite harm
Obligatory Grace
Annihilationism and Eternal Conscious Suffering (preview [...]
218th Christian Carnival
The 218th Christian Carnival is up over at Kiwi and an Emu.
218th Christian Carnival
Some highlights:
The Melchizedek Tradition from the Bible Archive
Cherishing Fidelity is an examination of Proverbs 3:3 over at Light Along the Journey
Why are people so anti-1 Corinthians 14:26-33? looks at why we can’t seem to apply what Paul writes here to the church [...]