Category: Bible
Sodom & Gomorrah As They Relate to Christianity & Culture
On Sunday my church considered Genesis 18:16-19:38, the story of the destruction of the infamous cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. A key character in the story is Lot, Abraham’s nephew, who decided to go down into the fertile valley of the...
The Key to the Gospel of John: Part Three
In my previous post, I claimed that the concept of ‘sign’ in John’s gospel has a specific, intentional meaning. I suggested that part of this meaning is a miraculous activity by Jesus. However, in the interim I found this excellent...
The Key to the Gospel of John: Part Two
Earlier, I raised the somewhat wild possibility that the fact that John is the “disciple whom Jesus loved” is the key to his Gospel. While I did not elaborate because my students were discussing the book (giving too much info...
The Key to the Gospel of John
My students and I are reading through the Gospel of John right now in my classes. I have always found the gospel of John to be not only enigmatic and illusive, but deeply enriching and attractive. Today in my classes...
Jesus’ Meaning
Mere-O friend Rick Radcliffe recently wrote one of the most thorough and detailed explications and critiques of Marcus Borg’s Christology (as elucidated in The Meaning of Jesus that I’ve read. Of course, Dr. Borg’s apparent view is that the gospels...
Evangelicals Desperately Need to Practice Spiritual Disciplines: an Exhortation from Romans
Last week I attended a summer class put on by a fairly typical Southern California church on spiritual disciplines. I thought it was cool that they even cared about spiritual disciplines – a subject grossly neglected by most evangelicals. For...
Under Review: Listening to the Spirit in the Text
(Note: I’m republishing this review as I am currently in St. Louis. Normal blogging returns Sunday). On a recent foray into our library, I picked up Gordon Fee’s Listening to the Spirit in the Text. A treasure trove of previously...
The Strong Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy
I was just listening to a lecture by JP Moreland on the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy. A few highlights – these are not comprehensive arguments by any stretch but are aspects of the bigger argument that struck me: 1) The...
We May Have been Wrong
Recently, Mere-O featured a story in the Independent about previously unknown Greek texts being deciphered. It turns out the story may not be a story at all. From Hannibal at arstechnica: So as of right now, the rest of the...
The Sort of Thing Mere-O Goes Nuts Over
From the Independent: Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that...