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event the law s proponents began talking about people the millions of people who will have access to health insurance as the result of the law told in the representative stories of a few one writer a former superintendent of insurance in maine told stories about women and families she encountered in her job who would be helped under the law continue reading the real winners from the obamacare ruling posted on june 29 2012 categories bible study current events tags bible church faith jesus new testament old testament politics prophets religion the poor 4 comments on the real winners from the obamacare ruling capitulating to our culture i was doing a quick shopping run the other day for my wife when i ran into this set of books prominently displayed at our favorite grocery store i was immediately leery as book publishers seem to have certain ideas about what boys need to know versus what girls need to know about the same general topics the covers are fairly innocuous sailboat versus horse diving versus jumping rope nothing too offensive of course inside the books was a different story full disclosure that s the first page i opened to in the boys book i flipped around the girls book briefly to find a page that corresponded fun summer idea on one page and an activity on the other so boys are told they can skip stones and solve puzzles and girls are told they can look good and lie on the beach note also the actual text a girl has her image to think of be a beautiful beach babe and the unnaturally skinny bikini clad preteens in the girls book as well and i would be remiss as a typographic nerd if i didn t point out that the boys book has a strong bold headline font compared to the girls frilly cutesy font which along with giving the boys book a better design also reinforces the subtle message that boys are to be strong and adventurous while girls should look pretty continue reading capitulating to our culture posted on june 27 2012 categories current events parenting tags bible books children church new testament parenting pop culture religion women leave a comment on capitulating to our culture was mary really a virgin part 13 update i ve clearly been doing this series too long when i forget what part i m on last time out i mentioned that the conservative defense of the virgin birth had a strong argument its protestant proponents tend not to emphasize the history and tradition of the church relying too much on the tradition of the church sounds too catholic for many people and in more extreme circles there remains the notion that the catholic church was a usurper of god s true church nevertheless the church is a method by which god chooses to reveal himself and since there s no bright line that divides the apostolic church from its more centralized organized successors such traditions that have a long history of acceptance by the church such as the trinity for example should be seen as more reliable than others that do not though i don t think i need to say that it s a foolproof argument the church has gotten many things wrong over the millennia and will continue to do so humans being what they are to flesh out the history of the virgin birth doctrine i turned to hans von campenhausen s the virgin birth in the theology of the ancient church it s a short book and an interesting read it s about 40 years old but i believe it s just been reprinted so it s a little easier to find now than perhaps it once was von campenhausen starts with the bible noting as we have the silence of paul and mark and the ambiguity of john on the subject as well as the internal inconsistencies of the two lone biblical witnesses he branches out from there to note that two of the more widely read contemporary christian works the letter of barnabas and the shepherd of hermas both of which were considered canonical by some early christians in fact if we were to rank all the early christian writings by order of precanonical importance the shepherd of hermas might be above 2 peter and jude which were rejected as canonical by some early christians discuss jesus in great detail but also are silent about the virgin birth continue reading was mary really a virgin part 13 posted on june 25 2012 june 25 2012 categories bible study book reports hard questions history learning tags bible books church faith history jesus new testament religion 1 comment on was mary really a virgin part 13 aslan and a better view of god i have birthday money so i m thinking about what books i should get with it right now i m thinking king jesus gospel by scot mcknight how god became king by n t wright and a better atonement by tony jones you might notice a trend but all three of these books argue that modern day american christians have lost the true meaning and method of salvation most christians grow up with the concept of penal substitutionary atonement jesus died to save me from the wrath i deserve he bore it in my place mcknight in particular argues that when we look at the first statements of the gospel the writings of paul and the sermons of acts a heavy focus on the individual and the wrath of god is not in sight in fact although atonement is clearly a piece of the salvation story i would argue that the penal substitutionary variety creates a distorted view of god rather than seeing a god who loves the world so much that he would sacrifice anything to bring humanity back to a sin free eden we see a god who is so angry jesus had to die to save us from him and we can see how many christians view of grace sin judgment and the end times all grow out of this view of god which i would speculate is the result of misguidedly attempting to reconcile the incomplete even inaccurate description of god in pieces of the old testament with the much different descriptions of him provided by the new testament so i look forward to getting and reading those books because frankly theology blogs sometimes feel a little over my head and i haven t given this issue enough thought but i ve been thinking about it a little more lately thanks to the work of another theologian who treats the issue of salvation and atonement on a level i can understand i ve been reading the lion the witch and the wardrobe by c s lewis to my oldest daughter the past few weeks we just finished the part where aslan the christ figure of lewis fantasy world of narnia dies and rises again and i can t help but think how much better all of us would be if we grew up learning about god the way we learn about aslan continue reading aslan and a better view of god posted on june 22 2012 june 22 2012 categories bible study book reports hard questions learning tags bible books children faith jesus new testament religion 3 comments on aslan and a better view of god did adam have a belly button and other ridiculous questions adam and mr lunt apparently had something in common i enjoyed robert gromacki s the virgin birth despite my many disagreements with his approach and assumptions about the inerrancy of scripture and jesus sinlessness but there was one line on page 125 that had i been drinking something when i read it would have produced an epic spit take in a chapter entitled jesus was truly human gromacki endeavors to describe shockingly enough jesus humanity unfortunately gromacki doesn t actually view jesus as truly human in two rather large ways first in the way jesus was conceived and second and more important in the notion that jesus could not have sinned even if he d wanted to nevertheless at the end of the chapter gromacki compares adam to jesus and comes up with quite the notion contrasted with adam christ s humanity had a different expression adam was created and began an adult existence on the very first day he lived the human nature of jesus was conceived within a mother s womb just like any other human being but apart from human fertilization jesus experienced a fetal state a real birth and normal development but adam did not christ had a navel adam had none wait what continue reading did adam have a belly button and other ridiculous questions posted on june 20 2012 categories bible study book reports tags bible evolution literalism old testament religion leave a comment on did adam have a belly button and other ridiculous questions was mary really a virgin part 12 peter enns has spent a lot of time defending the notion that we should view the bible incarnationally that is to say we should recognize that the bible like jesus is the incarnate word of god fully divine but also fully human although enns makes this argument to explain why we should not expect a fully human book to provide answers to modern historical and scientific questions the original authors were not in a position to understand it s fascinating to note that robert gromacki in his book the virgin birth makes the same argument while achieving the completely opposite results on page 147 gromacki argues what man wrote and what god said are one and the same god had providentially prepared the writers life experiences so that their personalities including their distinctive methods of written communication were exactly the way god wanted them to be at the moment of writing at the critical moment when pen struck paper god so superintended them by the holy spirit that they wrote exactly what god wanted them to write leaving out nothing and adding nothing they contributed a human character to the scriptures but they were prevented from passing on to the written product any errors the bible therefore is god s word it is one book with both a divine and a human nature so it happened at the critical moment of conception within the womb of mary the problem is that gromacki is not actually describing a truly human collection of texts he s describing a fully divine book that happens to have human authorship a book in which god was something of a dictator in both senses of the word and this deeply flawed idea of the bible affects the way he views jesus continue reading was mary really a virgin part 12 posted on june 18 2012 categories bible study book reports hard questions learning tags bible books church faith jesus new testament religion leave a comment on was mary really a virgin part 12 the big history of god s evolving universe update ted s wordpress embed code actually links to the wrong video so you ll have to visit this link to watch it sorry for the inconvenience my wife and i like to wind down before bed by watching one or two ted talks partly because we re that nerdy and partly because netflix has begun streaming them in little 10 talk packages by subject we re working through the ancient clues packet which has all sorts of fun talks about human origins and the like the talk above by david christian an australian history professor is perhaps the strongest argument i ve ever seen for the nature of god s work in the universe he never mentions god indeed doesn t give us any reason to think he believes in any god at all but his treatment of big history and the various goldlilocks moments when conditions were just right for the universe to buck the law of entropy and produce greater complexity rather than greater disorder is an inspirational telling of just how intimately involved god is in his creation continue reading the big history of god s evolving universe posted on june 15 2012 june 15 2012 categories history speakers tags evolution faith religion science 2 comments on the big history of god s evolving universe can civility cloud the truth the morning after north carolina voters amended their state constitution to ban gay marriage and civil unions i posted an angry comment to facebook 2008 presidential voting notwithstanding north carolina voters are still embarrassingly ignorant yet another state that in 20 years is going to collectively say oops sorry about taking away your civil rights back there no hard feelings for the last two decades of second class citizenship right i received some hard pushback from some friends of mine those are pretty harsh words the kind of rhetoric that inflames the political and moral discussion about straight gay issues from both sides making it impossible to move the dialog forward wow i would not say that standing up for god s intended purpose of marriage is embarrassingly ignorant pretty harsh i won t assign to anyone an appellation that fits only their worst characteristic if they also have noble ones note i have not indicated here what i think of the amendment but i m confident that faithful intelligent people of good conscience voted on both sides tough to preach tolerance and acceptance amid name calling those with different beliefs especially in this case when many on the other side are god fearing christians and productive citizens attempting to follow what they ve read in the bible continue reading can civility cloud the truth posted on june 13 2012 june 13 2012 categories current events tags bible homosexuality politics religion 2 comments on can civility cloud the truth was mary really a virgin part 11 i ve spent more than two months now working methodically through the notion of the virgin birth what the text says and doesn t say and what critical scholars argue about the stories and i think we re close to wrapping this thing up first however we have to deal with theology i tried to do that a couple of weeks ago and wasted everyone s time well not everyone s these posts are actually not well read so i ve wasted very few people s time apparently so this week i read through robert gromacki s the virgin birth a biblical study of the deity of jesus christ you might gather by the linking of christ s deity with the virgin birth that this is a conservative work which is exactly what i wanted an in depth study of the virgin birth from a traditional perspective one that treats both the problems raised by modern scholarship and the theological implications for those problems i ll let gromacki have the floor with minimal commentary from me next week i ll respond to what he says but for now let s just see what that is continue reading was mary really a virgin part 11 posted on june 11 2012 categories bible study book reports history tags bible books faith jesus new testament religion 4 comments on was mary really a virgin part 11 why don t christians support polygamy the question might seem to have an obvious answer but i m not so sure i was having a little facebook discussion about homosexuality and typically for me pushing back against some folks notion of a completely inerrant universally applicable bible that unequivocally condemns homosexuality as we know it today if by now you haven t figured out i don t think the bible is inerrant as evangelicals use the term nor do i think all parts of it are universally applicable and neither does anyone else even if they say they do nor do i think we can so easily draw a straight line from homosexuality as used in the bible and the kind practiced and debated today neverthele...