Here we are, a day before the 2020 presidential election, and I want to give a few final thoughts to wrap up my two previous posts. Call it a “Christian response to our politics,” if you will. In particular, this post really is addressed to Christians more than anyone else. I want to first say…
In my previous post, I gave a brief overview regarding how I felt about Donald Trump in 2016, how I expected him to crash and burn as president, how I assumed I would be voting for a Democrat in 2020 (as long as they acted like adults), and how I was shockingly and pleasantly surprised…
As we are now just days from the 2020 Presidential Election, with all the tension and toxicity every single American has felt for the past four years, and in light of everyone’s dread of what the fallout of the election will be, I thought I’d take time on my blog to write about my perspective…
We now come to my final post in this short series involving my look at the book, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?, that covers a debate on that topic by New Testament scholars Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans. A Note About John’s GospelBefore I move onto both scholars’ concluding statements and…
We now come to Part 2 of my short blog series on the book Can we Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? that is essentially the transcript of a debate between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans. As was obvious from Part 1, Ehrman’s answer to that question is a definitive “No,” based on the…
Just recently, a new book came out entitled, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? It is essentially the transcript from a debate between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans over the issue of the historical reliability of the Gospels concerning the life of Jesus. My only criticism of the book is that I…
Here in this final installment of my look at Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, I want to discuss what I feel is the deeper, underlying issue, not only to what Sledge discusses in his book, but to so much that is problematic in so many Christian-Atheist debates about Christianity in general and the Bible in…
Here in Part 4 of my analysis of Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, I’m going to delve into a curious phenomenon I have noticed with many former Christians, particularly ex-Evangelicals/Fundamentalists, when it comes to them explaining why the left the faith. Now, as we’ve seen with Sledge’s life story, there were a variety of things…
We now come to Part 3 of my analysis of Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus—a book in which he recounts his life story into Christianity, into the ministry, and eventually out of Christianity altogether. In Part 1 of this series, I provided a “Reader’s Digest version,” if you will, of Sledge’s 420-page book. In Part…
Last week I began a short blog series in which I discuss Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, in which he tells his life story as an Evangelical pastor, and his eventual walking away from the Christian faith, to where he now identifies as a humanist. In last week’s post, I provided a 2,500-word overview of…