“Rescuing Inerrancy” by Hugh Ross–A Book Analysis Series (Part 3: Genre and a Solid Dome?)

Here in Part 3 of my analysis of Hugh Ross’ book, Rescuing Inerrancy, we will look at Chapters 11-13. Starting in Chapter 11, Ross finally starts to address some of the issues directly tied to Genesis 1-11. Up until Chapter 11, it has all been a more generalized discussion of terms like “dual revelation,” “inerrancy,”…

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“Rescuing Inerrancy” by Hugh Ross–A Book Analysis Series (Part 2): Dual Revelation, Inerrancy, and Concordism

Here in Part 2 of my analysis of Hugh Ross’ book, Rescuing Inerrancy, we will look at Chapters 5-9. Chapter 5: Dual Revelation and Inerrancy in Church HistoryIn Chapter 5, Ross pushes back on the claims of some recent Christian scholars that the concepts of “dual revelation” and “biblical inerrancy” and “concordance” are “recent doctrinal…

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“Rescuing Inerrancy,” by Hugh Ross: A Book Review Series (Part 1: Chapters 1-4–What’s the Problem?)

If you follow my blog regularly, and if you read my previous post, you know that a revised edition of my 2016 book The Heresy of Ham is now out. First things first—go buy ten copies and send them to friends and family. Secondly, to be honest, I wasn’t expecting it to get published so…

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The Revised Edition of “The Heresy of Ham” is Here

***I just found out today that the revised edition of my 2016 book The Heresy of Ham is already available. And so, I wanted to post this quick, initial “promotion” for it. What I’ve included below is that opening section of the book. If it catches your eye and intrigues you, please share this post…

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A Look at Jonathan Bernier’s “Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament” (Part 3: Paul’s Letters, Hebrews, James, I/II Peter, and Jude)

In this final post on Jonathan Bernier’s book, Rethinking the Dates for the New Testament, I’m going to try to provide a bird’s eye overview of everything else in this book that I didn’t cover in my first two posts. Basically, everything that isn’t Mark, Matthew, Luke, Acts, John, and Revelation! Paul’s LettersFor the most…

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A Look at Jonathan Bernier’s “Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament” (Part 2: The Gospel of John and Revelation)

Rethinking the Dates for the New Testament Books (Part 2) Continuing from last week’s post, today I’m going to look at Jonathan Bernier’s basic arguments in his book Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament regarding the dating of the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation. The Gospel of JohnThe traditional dating of…

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A Look at Jonathan Bernier’s “Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament”: (Part 1)

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that after reading John A.T. Robinson’s book, Redating the New Testament, he was now convinced that the Synoptic Gospels were all written before AD 70. When I mentioned I hadn’t read that book, he recommended Jonathan Bernier’s more recent Rethinking the Dates of the…

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Social Media Food Fight in Biblical Studies Between “Inspiring Philosophy” and “Data Over Dogma” (Part 2: Here’s How To Understand the Olivet Discourse)

In my last post, I noted a recent social media spat between Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy and Dan McClellan of Data Over Dogma. Long story short, they both got into an academic name-calling session and ended up saying very little, if at all, about the supposed reason for their feud to begin with: Did…

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Social Media Food Fight in Biblical Studies: Inspiring Philosophy vs. Data Over Dogma (where you learn nothing) Part 1

About a month ago, I stumbled upon a few videos between Dan McClellan (of “Data Over Dogma”) and Michael Jones (of “Inspiring Philosophy”)—a veritable video spat that spanned (to my count) four videos. It was so incredibly frustrating to watch these videos, I felt I had to write a post on the topic, just so…

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I Got Interviewed About my BCBS NT Reader’s Guide

In case anyone is interested and has an hour to watch, I got interviewed yesterday by Zach Miller on his channel about my recent BCBS NT Reader’s Guide. We focused on the Gospel of Mark, and all the Creation and Exodus allusions found in the opening chapter. In the process, I basically explain my understanding…

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