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- Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:52 am
- Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
- Topic: Correspondence with a critic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3699
Correspondence with a critic
This lady first wrote to me (along lines similar to the present missive) in 2016, and has written to me about once a year ever since. She has received much longer replies to her earlier communiqués than my reply to this one. This is one of her shorter messages, and one of my shorter replies. There m...
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:58 pm
- Forum: The Gospels
- Topic: The Last 12 verses of Mark
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11623
Re: The Last 12 verses of Mark
I am pasting below the section of my notes on the introduction of Mark's Gospel. This information is covered in my lecture series on Mark (I think the evidence, on balance, supports the long ending): Long or short ending? Short ending has Mark abruptly cut off with 16:8; long ending includes verses ...
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: Acts & Epistles
- Topic: The 500 who saw Jesus after the Resurrection
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3614
The 500 who saw Jesus after the Resurrection
New correspondence today: Steve, I heard you discussing Paul's list of eye-witnesses including the famous 500 (1 Corinthians 15:6). I don't understand why this anonymous claim has any weight whatsoever. In point of fact it would not have been possible for Paul's readers,, scattered around the Roman ...
- Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:57 pm
- Forum: Radio Program Topics
- Topic: What is a racist? Am I?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4808
Re: Steve is a racist
In all fairness, this critic wrote me back pointing out that he, technically, did not call me a racist, and does not think that I am. I took some of his points and statements to indicate otherwise, but I may have misread his intentions. In any case, my discussion of the definition of racism remains ...
- Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: Radio Program Topics
- Topic: What is a racist? Am I?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4808
What is a racist? Am I?
This email I received may interest some of you: Wow Steve! Of all the white people that I encounter, listen to or admire you would’ve been the last one in my opinion to deny the overwhelming racism & police brutality that exists in America!!! I am very shocked at the response you gave about George F...
- Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:02 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Doug Wilson's "pennies"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4863
Re: Doug Wilson's "pennies"
Hi Paidion,
I suggest that there are too many things we do not know about the nature of time to know whether your logic is inevitable.
I suggest that there are too many things we do not know about the nature of time to know whether your logic is inevitable.
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 11:13 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Doug Wilson's "pennies"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4863
Re: Diug Wilson's "pennies"
Ah, yes! But that is your problem. You will or will not eat the apple as it pleases you and as you exploit the opportunity to do so, without outwork duress. If someone knows you will do such a thing, then it will indeed happen. If I know you will do it, that does not make me actively involved in you...
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 3:05 pm
- Forum: Calvinism, Arminianism & Open Theism
- Topic: Doug Wilson's "pennies"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4863
Doug Wilson's "pennies"
Doug Wilson’s “tossed pennies” illustration Steve, In your debate with Douglas Wilson on Calvinism, you affirmed that God knows the future decisions we will make, but does not determine them, because we have free will. Doug responded (quite reasonably, it seems to me) that if you had a handful of p...
- Sun May 03, 2020 9:59 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: What should a pastor do? Coronavirus edition
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6449
Re: What should a pastor do? Coronavirus edition
Hi Singalphile and Darin, Singalphile, thank you for asking. Your questions seem to dovetail well with Darin's post, so I will answer both of you jointly. Darin,thank you for the clarifications. I think you might agree they do not address cases of a Christian's civil disobedience for actual conscien...
- Sat May 02, 2020 9:14 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: What should a pastor do? Coronavirus edition
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6449
Re: What should a pastor do? Coronavirus edition
Hi Darin and Singalphile, First, Singalphile, I did not say the state's mandate is to uphold " social justice, " but rather, "societal justice." I know the terms should be interchangeable, but that cannot be assumed today, when "social justice " is specifically a buzzword for " identity politics "—o...