Submitted by dbcollies on Fri, 2007-06-08 10:16
Submitted by dbcollies on Tue, 2007-01-02 12:08
Last year, I successfully completed my second pass at reading through the entire Bible in a year, this time following along with an on-line discussion at
One Year Bible Blog (
ATOM). This year, I've started again, but I'm following a different plan.
Submitted by dbcollies on Mon, 2006-07-10 15:34
Zeus has wriiten an excellent, well thought out post on homosexuality, Christianity, and the Bible. It's not anything in particular that I haven't seen before, but it's so well written that I had to give it a bump.
I especially liked the comment:
Submitted by dbcollies on Fri, 2006-06-09 08:20
Submitted by dbcollies on Mon, 2006-01-16 13:06
My thoughts from today's Bible readings on Jacob wrestling, Jesus' yoke, and the debate between creationism and evolution.
Submitted by dbcollies on Wed, 2005-12-28 21:48
I found this article by Rev. Ken Silva critical of the writings of Brian McLaren in particular, and emergent church in general. I'm certainly not an expert on Mr. McLaren's writings, but I can definitely say I'm not a fan of Rev. Silva's work.
He takes exception with the phrase
take another look at Jesus' teachings about hell
and responds with
Submitted by dbcollies on Wed, 2005-12-21 11:04
Submitted by dbcollies on Mon, 2005-12-19 19:37
As many of you will know, I've long been a supporter of the position that the Bible is not a historical or scientific text, and that treating it as such does it a disservice. That there's a fundamental difference between "truth" and "fact."
Submitted by dbcollies on Wed, 2005-12-07 06:01
TheOOZE has an article entitled "THE BIBLE IS NOT A JIGSAW PUZZLE: A New Approach to the New Testament." I recommend it.
While I don't know that I agree that this is all that "new" of an approach, it does help to articulate some of the issues with the way that the Bible is (mis)handled today. Unfortunately, coming at the Bible the way the author recommends involves a lot more work that just "cherry-picking" verses to support a position.
Submitted by dbcollies on Tue, 2005-12-06 10:38
The Daily Bible readings have moved on to 2 John today (December 6), and I've got another "issue." Specifically, 2 John 1 9-11:
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