American Patriot’s Bible, Greg Boyd, Perspective

Greg Boyd reviewed The Patriot’s Bible at Christianity Today’s blog Out of Ur.
These days what’s been on my mind is how people’s perspective shapes their thoughts, which shapes what they produce, like blog posts or sermons.  Greg Boyd is going to say certain things about The Patriot’s Bible (if you haven’t guessed, he detests it) [...]

Cornelius Plantinga: Questions Are OK

“It’s no disgrace to have more questions than answers. It’s not even surprising. There is much we don’t know about the world, and much we don’t know about the meaning of Scripture.”
– Cornelius Plantinga, President, Calvin Theological Seminary, Engaging God’s World pg. 169

Buechner on the Bible

“The Bible is not first of all a book of moral truth. I would call it instead a book of truth about the way life is. Those strange old scriptures present life as having been ordered in a certain way, with certain laws as inextricably built into it as the law of gravity [...]

Thinking Through the Big Picture

I’ve been thinking through the big picture of the bible and wrote down some stuff from books that I’ve been reading, and also from Adam Ellis’ summary on these blogs. Ellis’ words are in bold.
WHO ARE WE?
We are the people of God, created in his image. That image is distorted by the Fall but is [...]

Marvin Wilson on the Hebrew Bible

“The bedrock upon which New Testament faith rests securely is the Hebrew Bible. Christians more commonly refer to it as the “Old Testament” …It was certainly an unfortunate day for the Church when the Jewish Scriptures began to be called the “Old Testament.” Such a title implies that this Testament is now passé.”
–Marvin Wilson, Our [...]