Is the Bible inerrant?

Interesting blog series by Chris Tilling discussing that question.

can we have truely objective theology?

"Sometimes we dream fondly of a 'purely objective' knowledge of God - a knowledge freed from the limitations of our senses, minds, experience, preparation, and so forth. But nothing of this sort is possible, and God does not demand that of us. Rather, He condescends to dwell in and with us, as in a temple. he identifies himself in and through our thoughts, ideas and experiences." -John M. Frame

a major problem with many Christians including myself

Christians today, in my experience, seem to not know how to be brutally honest. I am one of those people. I bet every person who has ever named the name of Christ has had times in life where they simple felt angry at God, confused, and wronged by Him. But yet this isn't something that we tend to talk about openly. My question is, Why not?

Job is a great example of a healthy anger against God. I just read this blog post that does a good job of explaining what i am talking about.

God taking responsibility

"The gospels thus tell the story, centrally and crucially, which stands unique in the world’s great literature, the world’s religious theories and visions: the story of the creator God taking responsibility for what’s happened to creation, bearing the weight of its problems on his own shoulders. As Sydney Carter put it in one of his finest songs, ‘It’s God they ought to crucify, instead of you and me.’ Or, as one old evangelistic tract put it, the nations of the world got together to pronounce sentence on God for all the evils in the world, only to realise with a shock that God had already served his sentence." (N. T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God, 94)

Spirit lite

Interesting Sermon

follow up

Here is a more favorable review of Expelled.

I am still pondering the issue of the "Intelligent Design movement." In light Romans 1, I think it is valid to assume, looking at creation, that life was designed by a divine creator. But I still think we need to be clear when dealing with atheists that we define what we mean by God as a being that is far more than a scientific hypothesis.

I still feel like an amature in this discussion so please take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

Darwinism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Evolution, what a mess

I have the past few months been continually looking at these "scientific" issues. I still have yet to come to any firm conclusions other than that God created the heaven and the earth according to scripture. But how does this all work together with science and the natural world where nature seems to be bound by a beautiful system that runs things. Are the modern day evolutionary atheists correct in saying that the natural world can run itself and there is no need for a divine creator, especially the God of the Bible?

I recently saw the movie Expelled which is a documentary by Ben Stein (remember that good old teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off?)examining the reasons that intelligent design is a valid theory and should be taught in our classrooms. I was very disappointed in the film. I am afraid that the movie didn't do a decent enough job of explaining the issue. The film was more propaganda than it was objective reasoning. The Intelligent Design (ID) proponents, for the most part, attacked and ridiculed the atheists and Darwinist which only made the IDers look stupid themselves.

Due to this blog and some great conversations with my girlfriend (who is currently reading Dawkins' The God Delusion), I am being to question whether Christians should be pushing ID. I am being to believe that ID is a weak counter argument to Darwinism because it reduces God into a simple hypothesis that can easily be taken apart by any astute thinker.

My other thought is that observable evolution is the only thing that should be considered if one wants to simply look at the facts and at science only. Intelligent Design, Creationism, and Darwinian Evolution are all dealing with metaphysical ideas that are somewhat apart from scientific inquiry. These three ideas, though one might call them "scientific", are really ideas that belong in the realm of philosophy.

But then again...

Someone I know asked: "How can you separate the natural from the spiritual?"

Good question.

It seems to me the answer to Atheistic Darwinism is not a simple one. I think the task of the Christian to "defend the faith" on this issue is incredibly difficult.

If you want to read more, Check out this review essay

God and the problem of evil

There is a great (though far too brief) dialogue between the brilliant New Testament Scholar N.T. Wright and Bart Ehrman. Ehrman is a former "evangelical" who now claims to be agnostic and does not believe in the Christian God anymore partially because of the strong presence of evil in this world. I found it to be very interesting as I have been pondering this issue in conjunction with reading Wright's book Evil and the Justice of God


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Good Ol' Snoopy

There Will Be Blood (of Christ)

parody of the film, There Will be Blood, from Princeton Theological Seminary. Very funny.

Google Reader

I recently was introduced to this amazing tool for blog fanatics like myself and it has made blog reading so much faster and easier