So this year I’m attempting to read through the whole bible by following this excellent reading plan put together by The Bible Project. The Bible Project guys have also created some amazing videos to accompany the reading plan. These videos gave a short, but quite comprehensive, summary of each book of the bible. They’ll be…
Continue reading →Hi readers, Just a quick note to say that I’m off on holidays for the next few weeks so any updates will be few and far between. Looking forward to recharging and getting some time to think about the more meaty theological things that I’d like to start working through. Among these… Biblical inerrancy –…
Continue reading →I have now moved to a new WordPress set up hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech. All posts before this point were originally from my Blogger hosted site and so may look a bit mis-formatted. I’ve tried to fix anything obvious but feel free to leave a comment if you see anything that needs updated. I’ve only been…
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Bibles.org (http://bibles.org) has an excellent set of tools which can be used on blogs or embedded in other websites. Here’s a quick summary of how to get the various bits and bobs working. Bible search widget (see sidebar) Go here http://tools.bibles.org/ widget.html and click Get Started at the bottom. Pick the various versions you want. Next Customise the…
Continue reading →I’ve been thinking about ‘agreeing in prayer’ with one another lately as I have heard that term quite a lot recently. I don’t think I had heard people ask for prayer requests in this way until fairly recently and since I noticed it a few months ago I have also heard it come up in…
Continue reading →This link (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2015/05/11/repainting-hell-2-jeff-cook/) is an excellent article which sets out some good arguments on rejecting the traditional view of Hell (everlasting torment of the soul) in favour of embracing an annihilistic view (the soul is simply ‘gone’ – no torment).Largely the basis of this argument is that a good God can not allow any evil…
Continue reading →Voddie Baucham’s explanation of why he believes the Bible… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWU12DzPTUo [I have added a few notes of my own which I thought about and looked up while putting together this synopsis]Let’s focus on the NT for now, as the resurrection is the key to the Christian faith (1 Cor 15:14-19), “…And if Christ has not…
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