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Ray Hagins Refuted: Arius and the Council of Nicaea
In my first post on Ray Hagins I covered how the assertions he makes about gods like Horus, Mithras and Krishnahave no basis in reality. In fact, a number of people offered Hagins cash rewards for any...
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Why it Takes a PhD to Understand the Bible: The Holy Spirit and Interpretation
[8/19/2013: Due to scads of people misunderstanding this post I have made several modifications and added definitions throughout for clarity.]Does the Holy Spirit give believers an understanding of...
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Answers in Genesis Responds to my Critique of their Museum
I can't deny. I dig the beard. [Edit 8/19/13: I've introduced some clarifications, stylistic changes and minor marked emendations into this post.] Answers in Genesis' Ken Ham and Georgia Purdom have...
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Back from Hiatus with Groundbreaking Ancient Astronaut Discovery
I've been gone for months. Since last I posted, I’ve been married to a ridiculously attractive Irish goddess (Someone call John MacAuthor, miracles are for today!). I've moved, been studying, divining...
View ArticleLexical Crimes: Does the Word “Abomination” only refer to ritual wrongs?
I was recently shown this below clip from a documentary entitled, For the Bible Tells Me So:There’s a lake of ink that could be spilled in reviewing the specific arguments made in this clip, but in...
View ArticleLexical Crimes: America’s Three Favorite Bible Verses
It’s hard not to become dulled by an American church which seems to think Sunday school ought to be eternal and the Bible to be studied only with the hermeneutic one would bring to a self-help book....
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Phil Valentine Debunked
Due to my online critiques of Ray Hagins, Sara Suten Seti and Ashra Kwesi, I’ve been asked for years to write a critique of the highly popular speaker Phil Valentine. Since Valentine’s online lectures...
View ArticleLexical Crimes: Tattoos and Leviticus 19:28
I recently came across two articles on Leviticus 19.28. One from Gilad Gevaryahu in the Jewish BibleQuarterly and the other by John Huehnergard and Harold Liebowitz in Vetus Testamentum. For those...
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The Bodies of God and the Jewish Trinity
I’m excited to direct readers to a wonderful resource offered by the Foundation for Jewish Studies. Benjamin D. Sommer, professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic languages at the Jewish Theological...
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Ishtar ≠ Easter: Stop Getting your History from Internet Memes Richard Dawkins
The source of my annoyance today: The Richard Dawkins Foundation Facebook page. Here’s a meme I wouldn’t mind if I never saw again. (Thank’s Richard for exposing it to over 75,000 people and...
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Christian Universalism Refuted
Some of the universal salvation arguments put forward by scholars like Talbott and “MacDonald” (Robin Parry) are quite clever at dodging opposing proof texts. It's not hard to see how people find...
View ArticleWhy Ray Hagin’s PhD is Probably Bogus
I’ve written several critiques of Ray Hagins online. You can read these here, here and here. Hagins has no CV online that I’ve ever been able to find. The most exhaustive academic bio I can find on...
View ArticleNew Dissertation on Dawkins and Abiogenesis
I work a grave shift security job with cargo pilots. A few weeks ago, one from my school shared with me that he had finally finished his doctoral dissertation. It’s entitled The non-ending search...
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The Unseen Realm Review
I keep a journal of interesting things I encounter in my studies. Sometimes these lead to drawings. In this post, I've included a few of these over the years that were inspired by Heiser’s books,...
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Salon.com's Remarkably Stupid Historical Jesus Article
A Muslim friend showed me this viral article about Jesus by Valerie Tarico entitled, “9 Things You Think You Know about Jesus that are Probably Wrong.”In this post, I don't care about convincing...
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Seven Headed Plesiosaurs and Hebrew Grammar
I’ve shown in several posts like this why Leviathan is a supernatural west-Semitic chaos deity and can’t be a plesiosaur. Recent conversation with my Hebrew professor on some of the Semitic sources has...
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Learn Aramaic Online Free
Link to the Aramaic courseThis article by a best-selling memory researcher I found several months ago is the most beneficial I've ever read on language study, and less than two months after applying it...
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How Fact and Opinion Worksheets Corrupt Children: Plato Flunks Common Core
I'm uncaging the philosopher in me to let him prance around a bit. I promise to tranq him in the neck and shove him back in his cage to return to the serious business of writing on something terribly...
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How Biblical Worship is like Hearing a Good Ghost Story - Part 1
The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall first publishedin 1936What is the Worship-Dread Paradox?Imagine you were a duckling raised your whole life without ever being allowed to see a body of water larger than...
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How Biblical Worship is like Hearing a Good Ghost Story - Part 2
Part 1 hereLine drawings depicting various ancient Near Eastern divine beings.A Strange EncounterA woman approached him sheepishly after he delivered his talk in a church in Seattle. She asked if she...
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