Hovering Over the Face of the Deep: The Spirit in Creation
For all our debates about the nature and genre of the Creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2, I’m amazed by the lack of discussion surrounding the meaning of the Spirit’s activities in 1:2 where the text reads, “And the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the deep.”
We’ve been so sidetracked by [...]
Tom in the Box News
I came across a wonderful Christian satire site, Tom in the Box News, today. The Better Bible’s Blog turned me on to it today, aleting me to the plight of some poor missionaries who are having a hard time translating “thees” and “thous”. Here is a sample of their wonderfulness.
Dr. Simmons lamented along a similar [...]
Terminology Question of the Day
If Jesus is the “Word,”1 and we don’t want to be sloppy with our language and steer ourselves away from confusing the Word with the Bible, then what ought we call the Bible to emphasize it’s nature as God-breathed scripture?
I don’t like using “the word of God” because it confuses the Bible and Jesus and [...]
Pressure from Below: The Thecla Tradition and Early Christian Expectation
Only three nights from Tarsus, in Isauria, is the martyr shrine of Saint Thecla. Since it was so close we were pleased to travel there… Around the holy church there is a tremendous number of cells for men and women… There are a great many cells on that hill, and in the middle a great [...]
What is the Word of God?
What is the word of God?
The Bible in a reader’s native language which is faithful in message to the autographs
The autographs of biblical texts
The message behind texts we consider inspired
Jesus
Other
The Merit of Scripture… paraphrasing
I have had a terrible approach to the study of scripture since the great fracture of 2002 (my adventures at Central Christian College of the Bible). As I am reapporaching my faith in the wake of that experiance, I am looking for good ways to reapproach the Bible. One of my convictions is [...]
Wayne on Wayne on Gender
Wayne Leman over at Complegalitarian looks at what Wayne Grudem said at the annual Evangelical Theological Society meeting last week.
Grudem on the State of the Gender Debate and the Way Forward
Grudem had this to say:
I am surprised that this controversy has gone on so long. In the late 80’s and early 90’s I expected that [...]