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The Bible: Is one translation of the Bible more accurate?
Published by Jeff, on October 17th, 2011 in Front Page, My Beliefs.This post is part of a series investigating the most important items of Christian doctrine. View all posts by clicking here or the DOGMA tag above.
Is one translation of the Bible more accurate? Why the need for so many English translations?
I addressed this one on Sunday, and the basic answer is that because inerrancy depends on understanding the original intent of the original manuscripts, we employ as much scholarship and study as it takes to get back to both. Some scholarship helps us reconstruct the original manuscripts with greater accuracy. Some scholarship helps us translate the original intent with greater accuracy. » Click here to read the rest. «
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The Bible: Do NT verses on Scripture apply to both Testaments?
Published by Jeff, on October 17th, 2011 in Front Page, My Beliefs.This post is part of a series investigating the most important items of Christian doctrine. View all posts by clicking here or the DOGMA tag above.
Can we generalize New Testament verses on the authority of Scripture (eg. 2 Tim 3:15-17) to the NT since in the original context they were referring only to the Old Testament?
I didn’t get to answer this one on Sunday, but it’s a good question and deserves a little time. Basically, the question raises the issue that the New Testament authors use the word Scripture to refer to their Scripture which would have been the Jewish Scriptures or the Old Testament. Therefore, one could argue, the New Testament passages on Scriptural authority apply only to the Old Testament. As a result, how do we get our idea that the New Testament is also authoritative? » Click here to read the rest. «
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DOGMA: The Authority of the Bible
Published by Jeff, on October 17th, 2011 in Front Page, My Beliefs.At Lafayette Community Church, I have just begun a teaching series called DOGMA to discuss the core beliefs of our church and why we should be dogmatic about them.
Even though our world is filled with arguments about tolerance, the Bible is completely intolerant about a few key doctrines. We would say the Bible is dogmatic about them, and though we never berate or belittle those who disagree with us, we can certainly hold that over certain issues, there are clearly defined lines between right and wrong.
This series is all about exploring those lines. » Click here to read the rest. «
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This Sunday evening, I will be leading worship for our third and final “Living Water” evening: a time of extended worship and interactive training in sharing our faith.
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The preposition at the end of a sentence is one of those grammar “rules” that is often disregarded, but the three main reasons it is there as a rule as I understand it are the following:
- To reduce redundancy.
- To increase clarity.
- To strengthen speech.
To illustrate #1, for example, the most commonly misused preposition that I’ve heard is “at.” It shows up in the sentence, “Let me tell you where I am at.” The preposition in this case is adding a layer of redundancy that isn’t necessary. Simply removing it, we are left with, “Let me tell you where I am.” This second version is stronger, because the emphasis is on the verb. People inherently know this, I think, because the usual formulation of the sentence actually goes like this: “Let me tell you where I’m at.” People will use the contracted form of “I am” but feel like something is missing, and so they will add the lingering “at” to finish the sentence. » Click here to read the rest. «
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Overheard in yesterday’s sermon…
Published by Jeff, on July 11th, 2011 in Front Page, Lafayette Community Church.During my message yesterday at Lafayette Community Church, I made reference to a couple psychological researchers who made presentations at the TED conference regarding happiness and freedom and choice.
The two researchers are Dan Gilbert and Barry Schwartz. Linked here are the videos where they explain the results of their research:
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I have created a properties file for SciTE that makes it work just like Write Room or Dark Room, but it’s cross platform and fast! Plus, if you start a paragraph with a tab, the entire paragraph is indented even if there is wordwrap turned on!!
Set this as your user.properties or global.properties script and press f11 to go fullscreen: » Click here to read the rest. «
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"Our biochemistry is about 97% the same as a mouse.
Our biochemistry is about 50% the same as a banana.
Human Cytochrom 'C' is closest to that of a sunflower.
Human eyes are closest to the eyes of an octopus.
Human skin is closest to that of a pig."
Explain to me, how this fits in with primates??? With all due respect, i think his aim with "god set it up that way" was meant to be an insult of some kind. He sounds very passionate about this subject and with passion comes biases. While i'm not researched in anyway on this specific argument, generally speaking i'm convinced these people only look at their "evidence" with one prospective; 1st proves evolution or doesn't.. They don't even consider any other possibility of what it could mean..Taken at face value because i don't know anything about the human gnome and could be missing key things due to pure ignorance. Start of video; You had plenty of time to research and form a "theory" on something then proceed to drop this well researched project on someone and expect them to refute you on the drop of dime?? I dont think you need a PHD to say; you should allow someone to try refute your findings within a respectable time frame. That seems like the most objective thing to do. Although i think this would show insecurity on "Ken's" part. (To have holes punched in something your just presenting would be kind embarrassing. or was it arrogance?) Rest of video: Sounds like its not an exact match, "within 15 bases", and something about Telomeres not belonging? The choice of "correspond with" instead of something like is "exactly like", implicates some differences as well?.. But i could be completely wrong.. "no reason, no rhyme" sounds like he is insulting the bible as well. Would be very interested in hearing a completely objective view on these findings..