These days the exvangelicals get a great deal of attention, both from those who are glad they're "ex-", those who aren't, and those who aren't sure there is an "ex-" from Evangelicalism. I fall into the last group, and a big reason for that was my own mother. Since next Sunday is Mother's Day, it's …
Textual Variants and Isopsephy in the New Testament :: By Randy Nettles #ourCOG
https://ourcog.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/textual-variants-and-isopsephy-in-the-new-testament-by-randy-nettles-ourcog After my post yesterday Why I’m Not Sold on Modern Biblical Scholarship/Criticism ourCOG posted this interesting treatment on the New Testament manuscripts, their variants and the significance (or lack thereof) of those variants. There's no question that the Bible--Old and New Testaments--is the best attested book to come out of classical antiquity, a point …
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Why I’m Not Sold on Modern Biblical Scholarship/Criticism
In a post on another one of my sites I announce a transition: this fall, Lord willing, I will begin teaching engineering at Lee University, which is my church's undergraduate institution. It is the first time since haunted the halls of the St. Andrew's School in Boca Raton, FL, that I have been either a …
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Overreliance on the Sacraments Leads to Box-Checker Christianity
Mere Orthodoxy has gone to meddling once again, this time in an article by Gillis Harp: Yet fixing old problems can open the door to new ones. A singular focus on holy communion can occasionally overshadow other crucial elements in worship, especially the ministry of the Word. Preoccupation with the eucharist may prompt evangelicals to overlook …
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Those Pesky Pedobaptists
I decided to have the good taste to wait until after Holy Week to respond to the North American Anglican's two posts on this subject: Lee Nelson's Credobaptism and Anglicanism and Alexander Wilgus' The Baptist Sacrament. Both of these were in response to Matthew Joss' The Case for Baptist Anglicans. Evidently this eminent site could …
Lent 2024 Series: I Am the Bread of Life: How Do We Celebrate the Eucharist?
https://youtu.be/VorCZ8UXoTQ The previous video in this series (there are only two) is found at the link Lent 2024 Series: I Am The Bread of Life: What Is the Eucharist? In posting this originally I neglected to included the video; my apologies for any inconvenience. The second in two sessions on this topic. In this video we …
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Lent 2024 Series: I Am The Bread of Life: What Is the Eucharist?
https://youtu.be/Ne4CHt1ITTU?si=Nk6RThObu6p1rCD9 A series for Lent 2024 in two parts: What is the Eucharist? (this video) How Do We Celebrate the Eucharist? (next video) Eucharistic theology and practice have long been a favourite topic of mine, from posts like Bill Clinton's Eucharistic Theology: It Depends on What 'Is' Is to Don’t Tell People to “Come to the …
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The Issues of the Role of the Laity and WO are Really Tied Together
I recently replied to Chris Findley's article with the post The Inconvenient Truth About the Nature of the Priesthood. One of the respondents to this pointed out a statement from the ACNA bishops as follows: As a College of Bishops, we confess that our Province has failed to affirm adequately the ministry of all Christians as …
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The “Leaky” Church of God Marches On
With all the recent excitement over Calvin Robinson and WO, something has come to my attention: the existence of another Church of God related site that has been using my material. Back in the day (2000-2010) we could speak of an "Anglican Blogosphere" which was instrumental in forming the ACNA. The Church of God was …
The Inconvenient Truth About the Nature of the Priesthood
Chris Findley goes at it again in his opposition to women in the "priesthood": There are few topics in the church today that are bound to stir up more impassioned arguments than that of women and the priesthood. Undoubtedly there are good people on both sides of this debate. Surely, there is a love for …
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