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Greg Beale on Inerrancy (2)

The following is part two of Martin Downes’ interview with Greg Beale on biblical inerrancy:Part 2: Dealing with denials and criticisms of the doctrine of inerrancy What are some of the consequences of denying inerrancy? Ultimately, if you hold just…

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Full Confidence

The church will always be harassed by those who deny the full truthfulness and trustworthiness of the Bible as God’s Word. That is not new. What is new however are the number of so-called evangelicals who accuse the Bible of…

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The Inescapable Evil of Abortion

All abortion providers know that what they do is an act of destruction. Try as they might they cannot escape the truth that abortion is homicide. What is more, abortion is homicide against the weakest and most vulnerable members of…

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God’s Story or My Story?

Once again the seemingly ever present Brian McLaren is poised to present something as new which is actually just a retread of ideas that tend to cling to the outer banks of Christianity like so much flotsam. To be a…

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Needed – A Good Doctrine of Scripture…

“To me, God is…” “God told me…” “What does this verse mean to you?” “I’m into God not doctrine.” “God speaks to me through the mountains.”In a day when the evangelical church is saturated with intuitive, mystical, and otherwise breezy…

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Greg Beale on Inerrancy

From an interview with Greg Beale in Martin Downes’ very helpful book Risking the Truth:Part 1: The Exegetical Foundations of InerrancyWhy do you believe the Bible, as originally given, is not only inspired but also inerrant?What are some of the…

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The Incredible Shrinking Pulpit

From Al Mohler: Preaching has fallen on hard times. So suggests a report out of Durham University’s College of Preachers. The British university’s CODEC research center, which aims to explore “the interfaces between the Bible, the digital environment and contemporary…

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Pro-Baby

From Marvin Olasky of World Magazine: A Gallup poll in 1972 showed 66 percent of Americans opposing abortion legalization. That year Detroit newspapers heavily supported a Michigan referendum to establish abortion on demand through the first five months of pregnancy,…

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Worship and Reality

There is spiritual danger in Paganism, and as Origen stated (and recently quoted by Pope Benedict) Paganism is defined by “Lacking feeling and reason, they are transformed into stones and wood.” In other words, Paganism flattens our perception, makes all…