BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

What is Unicode? Part II

In Part I of "What is Unicode?" we learned why Unicode will help you, my target audience, type Greek and Hebrew. Now let's get more specific. When you hit the "a" key on your keyboard, your computer tells Microsoft Word, let's say, to output not "a" but "0041." Then Word checks which font you're using and supplies the character that font ties to "0041." In Arial, that's "a." But in the BibleWorks Greek font, that's alpha ("α"). So Unicode decided to give alpha it's own code number, which...

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A Great Quote from Carl Henry in a 1991 Video Lecture

Carl Henry, in the second video on this page, paints a clear picture of the modernism that, he says (and I agree), co-opted the American church at the turn of the last century. He even uses a little appropriate humor: Modernism’s deepest assumption was that the scientific method of laboratory duplication and verification is the supremely reliable way of knowing. This presupposition struck at the very heart of miraculous supernaturalism, of miraculous revelation, miraculous atonement,...

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Don’t Bury Your Computer in the Ground: Free Lecture Sep 20

Every year for four or five years now I have given a special, free lecture at BJU's Mack Library on how using your computer wisely during ministerial training. I've done this because mine is the first generation to use computers throughout undergraduate and graduate training and I want to help others make sense of the proliferation of technological tools. Here are this year's details: Don't Bury Your Computer in the Ground A free seminar on how to use your computer strategically throughout...

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Philemon and the Moral Influence Theory of the Atonement

Because of Romans 1-5 and 1 Cor 15:3ff., I believe that penal substitution is the central motif under which we should view the atonement. Just because other views are championed by men who deny or downplay penal substitution does not, however, mean that all of those other motifs are invalid. Christ certainly defeated the powers of the evil one (the Christus Victor view), and, yes, His death is an example (the moral influence view). What kind of influence should the atonement have? Read these...

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