What should we think of new or trendy Bible translations?
How far should Bible translators go to accommodate their proposed readers? Some important biblical principles are explained.
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Refutation of New Scientist’s Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions
Second instalment of a refutation of a lengthy New Scientist diatribe against creation: refuting its contextually ignorant and outright incompetent charges of Bible ‘contradictions’.
Dawkins’ Ironic Hypocrisy
Misotheists like Dawkins attack creationist teachings, but give credence to wacky
ideas like ‘Jesus never existed’ rejected by historians. Other antitheists
like Bill Maher hold even wackier views, e.g. rejecting germ theory.
Church shock: ‘Can you marry your relative?’
No-one would dare to even think of marrying their relative … or would they?
Why Genesis 5 is a key chapter in the Bible
The chronology of the genealogy in Genesis 5 ties Creation week to the subsequent events, strongly authenticating the real history of Genesis 1–11.
What’s in a pronoun? The divine gender controversy
A number of respondents to a UK survey disagreed with a ‘male God’. But what does the Bible teach, and what does it mean for people of both sexes?
Evenings and mornings
How can there be evenings and mornings in Genesis 1 before the creation of the sun on Day 4?
Defending vital doctrines and the deity of Christ
Do we really confess Jesus as God? To understand New Testament confessions, it is important to understand the Old Testament basis. Many Old Testament references to God/YHWH/Jehovah are applied to Jesus.
Is Genesis poetry / figurative, a theological argument (polemic) and thus not history?
The ‘Genesis is poetry’ (Framework Hypothesis) idea is thoroughly self-inconsistent and nebulous, but also undermines the Gospel at its foundations.
Genesis—the seedbed of all Christian doctrine
A compact, point-by-point demonstration of the oft-stated and important claim that
virtually all Christian doctrine is dependent on, or founded in, the history in
the book of Genesis.
Easter’s earliest creed
The Resurrection of Christ, and the powerful historical evidence that supports it,
validates Genesis history at the same time.
Can we believe the Gospels?
One of Australia’s top legal minds examines the New Testament evidence for
the Resurrection. He applies the standard criteria used by courts throughout the
Western world to test the reliability of witnesses.