No, Isaiah 45:7 doesn't say God creates evil
This will be short.Adam Lee, an atheist at pathos thinks Isaiah 45:7 shows point-blank that the Biblical God creates evil. I don’t have a theological pony in this race since the Bible says all sorts of...
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Isaiah's 'circle of the earth'- A bad creationist argument
Isaiah 40:22"It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers..."I think it would be really cool if the above verse was a supernatural scientific revelation...
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Eth-Cepher: A Wacky New “Translation”
A friend of mine who just got back from an archaeological dig in Israel and is studying Semitic languages at Rutgers sent me a link to this errr…“translation” as a joke. It's by a guy named...
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Why the Christian Head Covering Movement is Wrong
I’ve been coming more and more across videos like this.They advocate restoring the New Testament cultural practice of head covering. The fact that this whole discussion is even necessary is probably...
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That 666 Video is Stupid: 666 doesn’t spell out Allah
Have you seen this video which has been shared over 80,000 times on Facebook? It features the starbucks cup guy yelling at us like an unfair caricature of an evangelical pastor in an NCIS episode...
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10 Ways Answers in Genesis Misinterprets the Bible: How to Theologize with a...
Read my original exchange with Answers in Genesis’ scientists here.Welcome to the tour. We modern Evangelicals have to deal with certain data most of church history didn’t have access to. That’s not a...
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Geronimo’s Dragon: Dinosaur Fossils behind the Apache Creation Myth
Forget Chuck Norris. His ancestorskilled 20 foot dragons with bows.It doesn’t look like anyone has written anything on this online or in any of the published material. One of my favorite audiobooks is...
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How to Learn the Ugaritic Alphabet Ludicrously Fast
Learning memory techniques before starting a language is bound to save you hundreds of hours and buckets of needless sweat. I'm going to illustrate this by showing how you can learn the Ugaritic...
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Melania Trump and the Synoptic Problem: An Argument for Obaman Priority
Since James McGrath first noted the Melania Trump and Michelle Obama synoptic problem, scholarship has greatly emphasized the possibility of discovering a third source from which both Obama and Melania...
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No, Jeremiah 10 isn’t a Christmas Tree
I’ve been asked before to comment on the popular claim made by the Hebrew roots movement that Jeremiah 10:1-5 is about a Christmas tree.I’ve translated the passage here:1. Heed the word that the Lord...
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Why it (Sort of) Takes a PhD to Understand the Bible: The Holy Spirit and...
[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...
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus: A New Illustrated Translation
I recently published a new edition of The Golden Sayingsof the Stoic philosopher Epictetus. It's by far the best edition of the Golden Sayings in existence. (Hey, the only competition is over a century...
View ArticleResponse to atheist Jaclyn Glenn on Jesus being a copy of pagan gods
I created this machine-gun-style refutation of some mythicist claims a while back. If anyone throws these ideas at you, the video may be a good source to link to them.Original...
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Old Testament Cosmology
I've been working on a project on ancient Near Eastern cosmic geography (which I can't say much about right now), and thought I'd share a diagram I've been working on. (Click to enlarge.) Of course,...
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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...
View ArticleLeviathan in its ancient Near Eastern context - New HQ video
I've got a new Youtube channel going. The goal of these videos is to make top scholarship accessible to the person in the pew in a visually beautiful format that will rival all the nonsense on the web...
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Did Jesus Appeal to Evil Eye Magic?
Scott B. Noegel from the University of Washington has dedicated much of his career to academic study of Ancient Near Eastern magic. If ancient animal entrail divination, dream interpretation and...
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