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Continue reading →: Is the King James Version the Only Perfect Word of God?If the King James Version is the only perfectly preserved word of God, then Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jesus, the apostles, Timothy, and every Christian who lived before 1611 lacked access to the perfectly preserved word of God. Yet Scripture never suggests any gap in God’s care for his people…
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Continue reading →: Is the Bible God’s Word or Human Words?Scripture is both divinely inspired and human authored. I find it essential we hold these two truths together. When we focus only on the divine side, we can forget that God spoke through real people in real places and times. We may overlook the language, culture, and circumstances that shaped…
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Continue reading →: How Authoritative Is The Bible for Christians Today?One of the recurring issues in contemporary Christianity is not simply whether the Bible should be read literally or non-literally, but how Scripture relates to other sources of authority when Christians disagree about what it means and how it should be applied. Many of the most contested debates in the…
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Continue reading →: Is God’s Word Limited To Only One Language?God’s word is not confined to a single language or wording but can be faithfully carried across translations. From the beginning of the biblical story, Scripture shows that God’s truth is meant to be heard and understood by people in their own language, not restricted to one sacred tongue. At…
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Continue reading →: When Church Leaders Confuse Peacemaking and PeacekeepingOne of the most important distinctions churches and ministries need to recover is the difference between peacemaking and peacekeeping. The two are often treated as though they are the same thing, but they are profoundly different. Peacekeeping seeks the appearance of harmony by suppressing tension, minimising conflict, and restoring institutional…
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Continue reading →: What Are the Nations, Theologically?In the face of rising Christian nationalism, one question seems strangely neglected: what are the nations, theologically? Scripture has a lot to say about nations, but not always what nationalists want to hear. Here are four themes that stand out from my own reading of the biblical story. The Nations…
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Continue reading →: The Alchemy of Paracelsus from a Christian PerspectiveFor many modern readers, the alchemy of Paracelsus can seem obscure and exotic. An odd mixture of primitive chemistry, mystical speculation, and renaissance medicine. Yet for Paracelsus, alchemy was neither superstition nor mere experiment. It was a disciplined attempt to understand and participate in a living, divinely ordered world. He…
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Continue reading →: What the Response of Church Leaders to the Vulnerable Reveals About Their GodThe way church and institutional leaders respond to vulnerable people reveals far more than their public theology. It reveals the character of the god they practically serve. Churches may preach grace, justice, truth, repentance, and compassion, but when wounded people disclose harm, fear, abuse, misconduct, or neglect, the response of…
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Continue reading →: On Praying for Rent Money: A Response to Richard BeckI was recently reading an article by Richard Beck entitled On Elite Criticism of the Prosperity Gospel, where he makes a helpful and provocative argument about why the prosperity gospel is often misunderstood. His basic point is that while prosperity theology is frequently criticised as manipulative or theologically distorted, this…
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Continue reading →: Determinism Ain’t What Drives UsI have noticed many atheists attacking biblical stories for not being fully compatible with determinism. Well, you got us there. The Christian worldview is not deterministic. Christianity assumes that created beings possess genuine agency. Humans are not machines running a fixed script, and neither are spiritual beings. The biblical story…
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