May 2nd, 2018
In this episode I review an article by Clint Archer dealing with the issue of the 144,000 found in the book in the Revelation. This article is a good case study in the differences of hermeneutics between Reformed and Dispensational Christians.
You can find the text of this article here: https://www.academia.edu/32930724/144_000_Cattle_on_144_000_Hills_A_response_to_Clint_Archer_on_the_meaning_of_the_144_000_Sealed_in_Revelation_7_and_14
You can find Archer's artlce here: http://thecripplegate.com/why-144000-means-144000/
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December 16th, 2017
In this drive by episode, I respond to a listener question about God and big rocks... you may be familiar with it.
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May 30th, 2016
In this episode we continue our series on the so-called "Bible Atrocities" and ask the question "Isn't the Bible Misogynistic?" This is Part 1 of a 3 part section seeking to answer that question.
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January 31st, 2016
In this episode we wrap up our discussion of the Doctrines of Grace by showing how Calvinism is relevant in the discipline of apologetics and why Calvinism is a more helpful response to the problem of evil and the problem of divine hiddenness than that of typical responses to those arguments.
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October 11th, 2015
In this episode, I circle back to some of the things that I discussed with Thomas Smith on his podcast Atheistically Speaking. I wasn't entirely happy with some of my responses so I wanted to flesh them out a little more here. I discuss everything from the literary master of the Bible to the Bible's polemical use of the Enuma Elish.
I also discuss my views on the ever controversial Genesis 1 creation account - this will be a delight to YEC and OEC alike!
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As I mentioned, here are some of the sources you can use to look into what I discussed. In addition to these, I recommend looking up a lecture by John Walton called Reading Genesis Through Ancient Eyes.
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Various Views:
Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation edited
by David Hagopian
Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation by J. Daryl
Charles
Did God Create In Six Days edited by Joseph Pipa and David
Hall
Four Views on the Historical Adam edited by Ardel B. Caneday
Old Earth Views
Genesis One: A Scientific Perspective by Hugh Ross
In The Beginning by E. J. Young
7 Days that Divide the World by John Lennox
God's Pattern for Creation: A Covenantal Reading of Genesis
1 by W. Robert Godfrey
A Biblical Case for an Old Earth by David Snoke
Young Earth Views
The Genesis Record by Henry Morris
In the Beginning of the World: A Scientific Study of Genesis
1-11 by Henry Morris
Literary/Historical Views
In The Beginning We Misunderstood by Miller and Soden
Kingdom Prologue by Meredith Kline (Framework Model)
The Lost World of Genesis One by John Walton
Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology by John Walton
Last Things First by J.V. Fesko
In the Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis by Henri
Blocher
Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological
Commentary by C. John Collins
July 10th, 2015
In this episode we continue our series on the supposed atrocities that are found within the Bible. We have looked at slavery in the past two episodes dealing with the Ancient Near Eastern cultural context and the casuistic laws found in the Old Testament. In this episode we move into the 1st century and explore how Jesus and Paul interacted with the topic of slavery.
June 26th, 2015
In this episode, we continue our look at the Old Testament laws
regarding slavery and respond to critical views that say that the Bible
condones slavery and the abuse of slaves.
June 7th, 2015
In this episode, I review some recent interactions on various Facebook threads in which the rise and intensification of Atheistic Fundamentalism and Anti-Intellectualism were demonstrably observed.
Here are the links to various lectures and articles referenced in the episode:
Links to the lectures on the history of Science and
Religion:
Lawrence Principe - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFVARio4pAk
Ronald Numbers - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BliF1xcToPk
Allan Chapman – https://vimeo.com/22188636
David Lindberg – https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/florentine-heretic-galileo-church-and-cosmos
Edward Davis – https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/center-for-research-in-science/id421902830?mt=10
(That is the link to the iTunes section. I have in mind his
lecture “Why History Matters.” I haven’t listened to all or most of the
lectures there so I cannot vouch for the quality of the lectures as a whole.)
Link to the Faraday lectures:
https://www.faraday.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/Lectures_old.php
Links to Polemics in the Old Testament:
Currid’s book on polemics
in the OT - http://www.amazon.com/Against-Gods-Polemical-Theology-Testament/dp/1433531836
Excepts from Currid’s
book - http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/polemic.html
An interview with Currid
- http://reformedforum.org/ctc281/
Currid’s lectures on
iTunes U - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/crass-plagiarism/id378879778?mt=10
Other Lectures that I have posted in the thread which they
refused to listen to because they are by “creationists”:
Science and Secularization, A discussion between Lawrence
Princepe, Ronald Numbers and John Brooke: https://vimeo.com/54400918
Philosophical Breakfast Club and the Invention of the
Scientist – A lecture by Laura Snyder: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HY27DpJUF8A
Scientism and the Humanities – A lecture by Roger Scruton: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zF5X9amkH2s
Philosophy and Scientism – A lecture by Peter M.S. Hacker: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAFqo67yuU
Science, Scientism and the Public Good – A lecture by Daniel
Robinson: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWHZfOGpn8
February 3rd, 2015
In this final episode responding to the Thinking Atheist Radio show on Counter Apologetics, I am joined again by my good friend Nicholas (NJ) Bruzzese.
July 5th, 2014
We are finally back after a long hiatus. And we are back with a bang. In this episode we look at whether or not atheists should even want to define atheism as "lack of belief" and why I think not defining it as such actually makes atheism a much stronger position.
