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Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts
Saturday, 15 June 2013

Born of a woman

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One small phrase from the bible has been the source of rumblings among scholars for nearly two milliennia.  Galatians 4:4, which refers to t...
Sunday, 26 May 2013

God so loved the world . . .

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" For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ...
Thursday, 9 May 2013

Dinner with believers

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Inviting a group of 'believers' for dinner is always interesting.  This evening there were three visitors - all nice folks - invited...
Monday, 29 April 2013

Noah, Abraham and morality

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An anonymous but interesting friend left a comment yesterday on my post " Things Christians Say, Part 5: Just go out and kill! ". ...
Sunday, 14 April 2013

Creationist science . . . or is it?

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Over lunch last week I found myself in an interesting debate with a gentle and progressive Muslim friend and a gentle and polite Christian f...
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Friday, 5 April 2013

Turn the other cheek

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Another of the paradoxical teachings of Jesus today . . . " Turn the other cheek " Christians are implored.  Whatever you do, do...
Saturday, 30 March 2013

Christ myth: some inconsistencies

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" Truth is not hard to kill but a lie well told is immortal " - - Mark Twain I know that it might be hard to accept that the sto...
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Friday, 29 March 2013

Jesus died today . . . or did he?

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Jesus died this day, one unidentified year, a couple of millennia ago.  It was Good Friday . Or did he?  I would say " of course not ...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

Things Christians say, part 47: Atheists have no reason to live

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A (more-o r-less) weekly series (although there was a pa use for a while) of responses to the things Christians say to atheists, based on t...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013

The fall of Tyre - but it didn't happen!

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Quite rightly, it was pointed out to me in the comments on my recent post  Ezekiel's surprising bread recipe , that I might not have bee...
Monday, 18 March 2013

The surprising origins of YEC - 'The Genesis Flood'

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Young Earth Creationism (YEC) is a surprisingly recent phenomenon!  Yes - I know that some of the old arguments are based on the work of Arc...
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Sunday, 17 March 2013

The Rocks Don't Lie - Noah and other floods

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This week's episode of the popular and increasingly informative podcast Skepticality featured an interesting interview with a geomorpho...
Friday, 15 March 2013

Ezekiel's surprising bread recipe

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Chapter 4 of the Old Testament book of Ezekiel contains a surprising recipe for bread.  It is not exactly the finest bread, but more someth...
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Thursday, 14 March 2013

Why didn't God just start again?

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Some people claim that God was planning to start again at various points in the Old Testament, but that something persuaded him not to do th...
Sunday, 3 March 2013

Original Sin and the sins of the fathers!

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A C Grayling said: Compare: a pharmaceutical company tells us that we are all born with a disease that requires that we buy their product ...
Friday, 1 March 2013

A budgie called Onan

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When I was at university I had a friend and neighbour who had previously owned a pet budgerigar. Somehow, it was revealed one day that the b...
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Friday, 22 February 2013

Francesca Stravrakopoulou - Think Week

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Of the events that I attended in Oxford Think Week, Saturday afternoon's talk by Professor Francesca Stravrakopoulou was the most inte...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Epimenides brings a paradox to the bible

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Those who claim the infallibility of the bible might not have noticed something hidden in the book of Titus.  It is a version of a paradox ...
Thursday, 3 January 2013

Off to the Land of Nod

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Many of my well educated readers will know this already, but there is a biblical basis to the phrase ' off to the land of nod '. A...
Friday, 7 December 2012

Pullman's strangest book?

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I have read some of the books written by the famous Oxford atheist Philip Pullman before.  His dark materials trilogy was eponymously dark a...