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Inspiration doesn't negate the reality of cognitive interpretive writing. I'm not denying inspiration. But I am affirming what is first of all clear in the NT that they studied resources (despite inspiration) and desired resources (despite revelation). Perhaps inspiration/revelation should be...

Not so fast. I'm inclined to agree that Levi & Matthew are the same individual w/ different names (Matthew named himself "Matthew" in his own account). However, that does not mean that Matthew/Levi was brothers w/ James the son of Alphaeus. Maybe their fathers had the same name. At most we...

I think we need to be careful about accusing the NT writers w/ translating on the fly from memory. Even if they were using memory, I'm sure it was fairly accurate (Paul a pharisee would be in this camp to a large extent). But others like Luke (who traveled w/ Paul; and remember Paul requested...

I am reserving the right to save my opinions for later. But honestly I don't see much of people's christology coming from the the 4 evangelists except to answer a few pet doctrines like X's humanity or divinity as if that was the point of the "middle stuff." The point in mentioning the...

To piggie back off of a book I just finished: Many classic Christians creeds speak of Jesus' virgin birth and skip right to his death and resurrection. So if that is the important parts (the "fundamentals") then why did the 4 evangelists spend so much time on the middle part, i.e. Jesus'...

THere is an example of smuggling an apostle out of a city. Different but similar I guess.

A rare occasion that I am in firm agreement w/ you!!! ;)

Outstanding post!

Great example of the Byz textform agreeing w/ the critical text is 1 Jn 5:7-8 as opposed to the TR. Classic example. Not to speak for JoJ, but if you want to understand why he holds to the Byz text, you should read Robinson's article on the priority of the Byzantine text. You can find it...

For the NT and many OT books, sure! But I am leaning toward a compositional theory of OT inspiration. So I believe the final form is the inspired text. For example, individual psalms did not take on their full theological meaning until a compiler and editor arranged them in such a way to...

I didn't mean to detract from this thread. I'll try to keep this short so we can get back to the OP. Yes and no (postmodern enough for you ;)). Yes in the sense of how inerrancy has been understood by some radicals on the conservative side. For instance, those who are adhere to ipsissima...

2 different issues (though overlap in some places). Fundamentalism, is in my estimation, stuck in modernity and even a harsh response to modernity and the age of critical scholarship. It clings to objectivism and certainty (moreso than truth). Ironically, since it is a reaction to critical...

Perhaps a little more advanced but has been getting awesome reviews (especially on the campuses of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary & Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Peter Leithart's Deep Exegesis: The Mystery of Reading Scripture. You can read a brief review I wrote about...

This post is a good response. I hope PrTeacher10 pays attention. Good points were made.

I guess it is in the more "relevant" emerging sector then. (not sure why I am surrounded with that element though)

So I don't know how recent the trend was that stopped calling sermons "sermon" and began calling them "talk". What do you call it? Why do you think it changed? Is it a bad thing to modernize the term? Should we adjust the term "preach" or "preaching" too???

Gotcha! Great point...

While I think you paint an accurate picture of the 2 ditches, I missed what that has to do with cheap grace. A thousand pardons. My issue with those who practice or preach a cheap grace is that their message is so completely different from that preached by Jesus himself. Not only is the...

I see what you are getting at now. First, where is "soul" used in Matt. 1? Second, only the Holy Spirit is mentioned in 1:20 in reference to God. Third, the text doesn't say "he will be holy". I'd have to double check, but the word "holy" is genitive and I don't think it can act as a...

Not sure what your point is in all of this as it relates to "soul". But word order in Greek doesn't matter, so the position of "spirit" to "holy" makes no dif. And the article in Greek is simply that, an article. It is not a "definite article" as if that is all it does (notice there is no...