Fred Butler provides a critique of Kent Brandenburg’s tradition-based mishandling of God’s Word: http://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/where-the-single-version-men-lead-us/
The article below that I wrote years ago sheds relevant light upon Steven Avery’s textual receptus claim, and Chris Pinto’s conspiratorial claim and his insistence that the TR tradition goes back to the early church period. http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php/2007/04/19/dean-burgon-and-his-phantom-manuscripts/ See also Ken Willy’s insightful comments on Pinto’s damage control after losing the debate: http://bibleversiondiscussionboard.yuku.com/topic/5650/Pinto-Post-Debate-Damage-Control#.UssEMPbm-XF
Fred Butler has further comments on Chris Pinto’s failed performance in the debate: http://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/h-p-blavatsky-for-the-defense/ http://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/why-the-whitepinto-debate-matters/ (Incidentally, I find it telling that Chris Pinto and Brannon Howse refuse to post the debate audio on their respective websites for their people to listen to. If they think Pinto “won” the debate, why not post it? I think we all know the answer
It is about that time of the year when we are introduced to creative ways to read our Bible for the next calender year (did you do it this year?). This is my sixth year encouraging others to use my particular reading plan. I suggest you take each day of next year to read and reflect on a single unit
The debate audio is available here! http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php/2013/12/13/in-response-to-chris-pinto/ I will post my review of the debate in the near future.
Fred Butler has written a helpful review of Chris Pinto’s conspiracy documentary entitled Tares Among the Wheat. I encourage you to read it. http://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/tares-among-the-wheat-a-review/
A few years ago, I applied at a Christian high school that promotes “Classical Christian Education.” I applied to the job because I wanted to encourage them to change their curriculum to teach their Christian youth Koine Greek, the Greek the New Testament writers used. The school insisted that I teach classical Greek or Latin, and was not interested in
http://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/chris-pintos-disingenuous-response-to-his-critics/ There is so much in Fred Butler’s article worthy to excerpt here (read it all), but here is a good point: “Chris Pinto is going into David Barton territory with his Thomas Jefferson stuff. If I recall correctly, Brannon Howse has taken David Barton to task on that subject as well as posted articles by others. Well, here we
Brannon Howse’s “Worldview Weekend” contributor Chris Pinto employs McCarthyistic tactics. http://christianresearchnetwork.org/2013/09/06/the-pintonian-inquisition-scholarship-or-mccarthyism/
Brannon Howse’s “Worldview Weekend” contributor Chris Pinto was recently duped by a satire news site. It is hilarious, but sad. It shows the pattern of Chris Pinto relying on dubious sources to further his conspiracy theory. “Another fascinating bit of evidence that gives us a peak into the conspiratorialist mindset of Chris Pinto involves the missing August 5, 2013 episode
Brannon Howse’s Worldview Weekend contributor Chris Pinto does not let the facts get in the way to show that there is a Jesuit under every rock: http://christianresearchnetwork.org/2013/09/02/the-slips-and-follies-of-the-pintonian-inquisition-part-1/
Chris Pinto of Noise of Thunder Radio holds to the conspiracy theory that Codex Sinaiticus is a 19th century forgery, a “Jesuit plot” to undermine the authority of Scripture with modern translations of the Bible. Pinto’s agenda is to promote his Textus Receptus view, arguing that the TR is the textual tradition that goes back to the original manuscripts of
Daniel Wallace, who is one of the foremost Evangelical textual scholars today defending the trustworthiness of the Bible, for example, debating such liberals as Bart Erhman, makes some excellent points refuting the sensational and baseless claim that Codex Sinaiticus is a forgery. Chris Pinto of Noise of Thunder Radio is peddling his egregiously biased documentary promoting his wacky conspiracy theory
Registration is NOW OPEN for The Life of Jesus and the Gospels. For eight weeks this summer, I will be teaching a weekly class on the life of Jesus and the Gospels at Jesus Bible Institute in New Jersey.
Since Good Friday is approaching, it is inevitable that many pastors are preparing to preach on the saying of Jesus on the cross: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” I would like to challenge these pastors to examine the textual evidence for this saying, as well as the theological implications of this saying. Luke
Throw away your index cards of Bible verses and start implementing orality in the memorization—and especially retention!—of God’s Word. Listening to God’s Word is the best way to memorize and retain Scripture. Everyone has smart phones today so this should be easy. 1. Download the Griffen iTalk Recorder app (or something comparable). 2. Before you throw away your index cards
Steve Hays responds to Peter Enn’s shallow theodicy: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2013/01/in-moments-like-these.html Hays’ third point is especially poignant: iii) More to the point, suppose a believer fail the test of faith in the face of Sandy Hook? What’s the significance of dead children from a godless perspective? Kids are merely biological replacement units. Had they lived, they would have procreated their own replacement
It is about that time of the year when we are introduced to creative ways to read our Bible for the next calender year (did you do it this year?). This is my fifth year encouraging others to use my particular reading plan. I suggest you take each day of next year to read and reflect on a single unit
Rod Decker has written a helpful paper on preaching and the biblical languages. You can find the paper here.
“In their recent book Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality (Oxford 2011), David Baggett and Jerry Walls have a chapter attacking Calvinism on allegedly philosophical grounds. Jerry Walls may well be the leading Arminian philosopher of his generation. So this chapter presumably represents the best philosophical case against Calvinism from an Arminian perspective.” Read more… See also the follow-up
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We have all heard the repeated misrepresentations and maligning of Calvinism, so it is easy to become blasé over time when we hear it again. But we must have stamina to continue to respond and challenge them. Certainly, there are times when wisdom calls for ignoring them. But there are times when we are called to defend our Lord’s character
Hays writes: Over at Arminian Invectives, Ben Henshaw has a running series on “unconditional eternal security.” Oddly enough, he has that filed under “perseverance.” Problem is, Calvinism doesn’t subscribe to “unconditional eternal security.” There are some antinomian fundamentalists who take that position (e.g. Zane Hodges, Charles Ryrie, Randall Gleason), but that’s in studied contrast to the Reformed doctrine of perseverance.
Pastor Joseph LoSardo of Bread of Life Fellowship in Wayne, New Jersey has begun a sermon series on First Corinthians. Click here to listen to his first sermon (Sunday, June 03, 2012).
Man of Sorrows! what a name For the Son of God, Who came Ruined sinners to reclaim. Hallelujah! What a Savior! Bearing shame and scoffing rude, In my place condemned He stood; Sealed my pardon with His blood. Hallelujah! What a Savior! Guilty, vile, and helpless we; Spotless Lamb of God was He; Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah! What
Here is the the Crossan/Borg vs. White/Renihan 2005 Debate on the Resurrection. I attended this debate that took place on the sea during an Alaskan cruise. It was either the day before or after the debate that Dr. White held a session on the cruise for his ministry cruisers where he expounded on the folly of the world’s wisdom in
Luke 23:34a is often known as the so-called, “First Saying of Christ on the Cross.” His intercessory prayer has been an indelible saying in the minds of the biblical literate (and not so literate) for centuries. This saying is perennial sermon fodder for pastors on Good Friday. And those who have viewed the poignant film The Passion of the Christ
Daniel Wallace wrote an article clearing up perennial confused renderings in the King James Version of the Bible. He concludes, “ have misread a transliteration as though it were a proper name, then assumed that the underlying Hebrew text meant Lucifer, embracing the false conclusion that calling the king ‘the morning star’ in Isa 14.12 and Christ the ‘morning star’
The “Calvinist vs. Arminian” debate is substantially a debate between what is called “synergism” and “monergism.” There is no third option (unless one is willing to affirm Pelagianism). For those who are new to the Calvinist-Arminian debate, the following is a primer on the two perennial branches of theological systems in Christianity. Or to put it another way, there are
“Last year, John Loftus and some colleagues published a book titled The End Of Christianity (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2011). The back cover and inside endorsements describe the book as “the sharpest set of intellectual criticisms found under the cover of a single volume”, “tremendously useful”, “superb”, and “exceedingly well-researched”. One endorser claims, “This book should win
“He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,” (Heb 1:3 ESV) The author of Hebrews expands on describing the
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