Paul Copan: Yahweh Wars
Paul Copan recently published a response to the criticisms he had received on his article “Is Yahweh a Moral Monster?” titled “Yahweh Wars and the Canaanites”. You can click the links to go to their respective articles. Both worth reading, and both (in my opinion) interesting reads.
On an entirely different note, I’ve recently gotten married and am moving across the (my) country, which has been the focus of the last few months. When everything is done and I’m “settled in,” I should begin producing more (better, hopefully) content again, probably mid-July.
Edit* Make that some time before September. While I’ll have content written, I won’t have a stable enough connection to update regularly, though there will certainly be more updates after July 4th.… (Read more)
Book Review: Rediscovering Holiness by J.I. Packer
Pages: 282
Publisher: Regal
Year: 1992 (2009)
Author: J.I. Packer
Living a life which is pleasing to God is a difficult task for many Christians, who find themselves living in a world which teaches the supremacy of desire, and the exaltation of self. It’s extremely unfortunate that many in the church have been so open to accepting and adopting many of the teachings of their (relative) society, integrating them into the church–a misdirected attempt at making the church more effective within a particular culture, perhaps? The fact remains, however, that modernity presents a set of challenges to the Christian that is unseen in history, and these challenges will probably only get “worse,” so long as Christians live in ambivalence.
Modernization is perceived self-sufficiency–medical breakthroughs, greatly lengthened life spans, technological feats which would have been unheard of just one hundred years ago. Christians have become complacent as the need to “lean” … (Read more)
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