Steven DiMattei, a biblical scholar who maintains the website Contradictions in the Bible, has a great post covering the creation of man in the J source (Genesis 2:4b-7). He points out that before there can be any plant life there must be two things: water to bring the plants life and a man to maintain the... Continue Reading →
This is the second post in a seven-part series responding to the blog post "And Babylon Will Never Be Inhabited" by pop-apologist S. J. Thomason. You can read the first post here. All biblical quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the English Standard Version. (Crossway, 2001) PROMISE TWO - "MARCH AROUND JERICHO 7 DAYS AND... Continue Reading →
The last post I did on "Evangelical Eisegesis" covered the Twitter ramblings of Greg Locke, the veritable gift that keeps on giving. Today's post will cover a similar fountain of fallaciousness who I've briefly dealt with before on this blog: SJ Thomason. Thomason runs around Twitter with the moniker "Christian Apologist" and she can be... Continue Reading →
There is a moving scene that appears toward the end of the book of Genesis involving the ageing and ailing patriarch Jacob, his long-lost son Joseph, and Joseph's two children. Joseph is told that his father is ill and so he takes Manasseh and Ephraim, his two sons, to see Jacob. Jacob is lying in... Continue Reading →
Most of us are familiar with the general details of the story of man's sin and expulsion from Eden. But few of us really appreciate all that is going on in the story in Genesis 3. After God makes man in the garden (Genesis 2:7), he plants two trees: the tree of life and the... Continue Reading →
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