Five Responses to the Newsweek Screed
The 9,000-word, Merry-Christmas, anti-Christian Newsweek screed opens with the following attempt at journalistic objectivity: They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments while demanding prayer in school. They appeal to God to save America from their political opponents, mostly Democrats. They gather in football stadiums by the thousands to pray for the country’s...
Christian Apologetics Already Ceding Ground to Secularism
I'm really enjoying James K. A. Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. Smith is a guide to Protestants who want some help from Taylor's massive A Secular Age but who don't have the gumption to wade through it all. And I just keep highlighting and highlighting. It's really trenchant stuff. As someone who finds presuppositionalism extremely useful (By Faith We Understand), I'm accustomed to the idea that Christian apologists may concede their debates before uttering a word,...
The Odd Bible Translation Situation We’re In
The Book of Mormon (1830) and the Pickthal translation of the Qur'an (1930), both completed long after "thee" and "thou" faded from common English usage, both adopted the archaic syntactical and grammatical forms used in the KJV. Why? Here's the Book of Mormon: Holy, holy God; we believe that thou art God, and we believe that thou art holy, and that thou wast a spirit, and that thou art a spirit, and that thou wilt be a spirit forever. (Alma 31:15) Here's Pickthal's translation of the first...
Affection Drives Cognition
As we say at BJU Press, affection drives cognition. And it's nice to hear scientistic materialists coming close to saying so. Frequently they arrive at truth despite themselves because, even if they suppress it, their microscopes are still by necessity trained on God's revelation (in nature). HT: Terry Egolf
Review: A Grammar of New Testament Greek: Volume 3: Syntax
A Grammar of New Testament Greek: Volume 3: Syntax by Nigel Turner My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm not really fit to compare Greek grammars. I read this one (carefully) for class as I was obliged to do. Whatever Turner's value compared to his competitors, I, at least, got one big life-altering truth out of this book that has stuck with me ten years on, and at least one friend got the same truth out of it: Greek is not an algebraically precise language; it's a human language, with all the foibles...